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Casket

Casket

  • Place of origin:

    Italy (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1400 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Workshop of Embriachi (school of, maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Wood inlaid with marquetry of ebony and bone

  • Museum number:

    2563-1856

  • Gallery location:

    In store

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This casket is made by the workshop of the Embriachi in North Italy ca. 1500.

The Embriachi (or also Ubriachi) was a north Italian family of entrepreneurs and carvers. The precise location of the workshop is unknown, except that in ca. 1431 there was apparently a workshop in Venice, in the area of S Luca.

The casket is of wood inlaid with marquetry of ebony and bone.

Marquetry is a technique in which small pieces of wood or other materials are overlaid or inlaid onto another wood surface to form a decorative veneer.

Physical description

The casket is of wood inlaid with marquetry of ebony and bone.
It is decorated with reliefs of amorini playing with snails, crickets, storks, etc., against a background of leaves. At either end of the coffer shaped lid is a bone shield left blank. Wood enriched with 'alla certosina' marquetry and covered with bone plaques.

Place of Origin

Italy (made)

Date

ca. 1400 (made)

Artist/maker

Workshop of Embriachi (school of, maker)

Materials and Techniques

Wood inlaid with marquetry of ebony and bone

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm, Length: 23 cm, Width: 13 cm

Descriptive line

Casket, wood inlaid with marquetry, by the school of the Embriachi, North Italy, ca. 1500

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1856. In: Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 31
Longhurst, Margaret H. Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory. Part II. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1929, p. 67
Schlosser, v. Julius. Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig. Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des a.h. Kaiserhauses Vienna, 1899, pp. 220

Production Note

North Italy

Materials

Wood; Ebony; Bone

Techniques

Inlay; Marquetry

Subjects depicted

Cupid; Stork; Amorini; Snails; Marquetry

Categories

Containers; Sculpture

Collection code

SCP

Qr_O224014
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