Casket with Creation Scenes

late 16th century

26.3 cm 22.6 cm 17.5 cm

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The casket is set with seven plaques, enameled with scenes from the creation of the World to the Creation and Fall of Man. On the left lunette of the curved lid, an abstract composition made of the elements (fire, rocks and water) representing the gathering together of the wat...

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W. F. B. Massey-Mainwaring [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, June 22, 1899, lot 234; George Robinson Harding, London, 1899, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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