Italian, Venice
Embriachi Workshop
Casket, 1390-1400
Ebony and walnut, bone, ivory, mother-of-pearl
33.1 x 27.9 cm (13 x 11 1/4 in.)
Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer, 1985.112
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, October 2, 1985-January 5, 1986.
Detroit Institute of Arts and Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, March 1-May 11, 1997, and Walters Art Gallery, June 21-August 31, 1997, cat. 81.
Publication History
Richard H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 148.
Christina Nielsen, ed., Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 9, 68-69, cat. 44.
Ownership History
Mrs. Potter Palmer, early twentieth-century [according to notes in curatorial files]; by descent through the Palmer family until 1985, when it was given to the museum.