About This Artwork
Siculo-Arabic Casket, 12th century
Ivory, brass, tempera, and gold leaf
15.9 x 10.3 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/16 in.)
Samuel P. Avery Endowment, 1926.389
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, October 2, 1985-January 5, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25, 2004-January 3, 2005, cat. 2.
Publication History
Perry Blythe Cott, Siculo-Arabic Ivories (Princeton, 1939), p. 33, pl. 7.
Ferrandis Torres, José, Marfiles árabes de occidente (Madrid, 1940), pp. 169-170, and pl. 39.
Ownership History
Achillito Chiesa, Milan, befor 1926 (his sale, New York, American Art Assoc, Inc., April 16-17, 1926, no. 368); Day & Meye, Co., as agent for the Art Institute [according to receipt in Registrar's file]; purchased by the museum, 1926.