Casket
1400-1500 (made)
| Place of origin |
Rectangular casket with round-arched lid; covered with leather, cut in front with floral scrollwork and on the back and sides with a repeating pattern of parallel lines and curves. The lid is similarly decorated with floral ornament and inscriptions in gothic characters, now much worn. With a twisted wrought iron handle on the lid, and a hasp and lock which is pierced with diaper ornament. The casket is strengthened with long iron hinges and angle pieces terminating in shells, and a curved band at each end of the lid pierced with tracery. Lined with crimson leather(?).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Oak, covered with decorated leather, with iron mounts |
| Brief description | Flemish(?), 1400-1500, oak and leather. Ex Peyre Collection. |
| Physical description | Rectangular casket with round-arched lid; covered with leather, cut in front with floral scrollwork and on the back and sides with a repeating pattern of parallel lines and curves. The lid is similarly decorated with floral ornament and inscriptions in gothic characters, now much worn. With a twisted wrought iron handle on the lid, and a hasp and lock which is pierced with diaper ornament. The casket is strengthened with long iron hinges and angle pieces terminating in shells, and a curved band at each end of the lid pierced with tracery. Lined with crimson leather(?). |
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| Object history | Bought from Emile Peyre for £30 'Wood wormeaten and chipped, leather much worn away and portion of lock missing'; attributed 'German; 15th century'. Assigned to the Furniture Collection. Formerly in the collection of Emile Peyre (1824-1904), a notable Parisian collector of French medieval and renaissance artefacts. In 1895 the South Kensington Museum (renamed the V&A in 1900), bought over 300 pieces of furniture and woodwork from him, (as well as sculpture and metalwork), at a cost of £11,878. 16s. 9d. |
| Historical context | Comparable caskets: V&A M.14-1920 in terms of form and style of mounts (attributed as Flemish on the basis of an inscription |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 734-1895 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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