Casket with Scenes from the Story of Samson

1530-1550 (Renaissance)

19.6 cm 11.5 cm 9.5 cm

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The traditional German wooden casket, or box, with panels around the sides carved with figural subjects is here updated with the newly popular classicizing framing motifs, such as the pillars in the corners and the herms (half human half pedestal) edging the cartouche in front...

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Paul Rattier, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paris, 1859, no. ???; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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