Casket with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

ca. 1450 (Late Medieval)

31.5 cm 16.1 cm 19.4 cm

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Rectangular boxes or caskets of ivory, wood, or leather, decorated with scenes depicting either the Passion of Christ or the Life of the Virgin, were produced in great quantity in 15th-century Flanders and exported all over Europe. The craftsman who carved these images drew in...

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Count Girolamo Possenti, Fabriano. Sale, Raphael Dura, Florence, April 1 1880, no. 38; F. Ongania, Venice. Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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