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List Of Caskets
This is a list of individual caskets with articles: * Shinkot casket, 2nd century BC, Buddhist container for reliquaries, Gandhara, stone *Bajaur casket, 5–6 AD, Gandhara (now Pakistan), stone reliquary * Kanishka Casket, 127, Kushan Empire (now Pakistan), gilded copper reliquary *Bimaran casket, 1st century, Afghanistan, gold reliquary * Brescia Casket, late 4th century, Italy, ivory reliquary * Pyxis of Čierne Kľačany, perhaps 4th-century, Byzantine, ivory *Franks Casket, early 8th century, Northumbria (now Northern England and south-east Scotland), bone (whale) * Pyxis of Zamora, 964, Islamic Spain, ivory *Pyxis of al-Mughira, 968, Islamic Spain, ivory * Troyes Casket, 10th or 11th century, Byzantine (found in France), ivory * Veroli Casket, late 10th or early 11th century, Constantinople (now known as Istanbul), ivory * Cammin Casket, , Scandinavia (lost in the Second World War of 1939–1945, although copies and a plaster cast remain), metal reliquary *Leyre Casket, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Casket MET DP100742
Morgan may refer to: People and fictional characters * Morgan (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Morgan le Fay, a powerful witch in Arthurian legend * Morgan (surname), a surname of Welsh origin * Morgan (singer), Italian musician Marco Castoldi (born 1972) * Moken, also spelled "Morgan", a seafaring ethnic group in the Andaman Sea Places United States * Morgan, Georgia * Morgan, Iowa Morgan is an unincorporated community in northwestern Winneshiek County, Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the ... * Morgan, Minnesota * Morgan, Missouri * Morgan, Montana * Morgan, New Jersey * Morgan, Oregon * Morgan, Pennsylvania * Morgan, Texas * Morgan, Utah * Morgan, Vermont * Morgan, West Virginia * Morgan, Wisconsin, a town * Morgan, Oconto County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Morgan, Shawano County, Wisconsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troyes Casket
The Troyes Casket is a carved ivory box of Byzantine origin. It is housed in the treasury of the Troyes Cathedral in Troyes Troyes () is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near to ..., France. History The Troyes Casket was carved during Byzantium’s Macedonian Dynasty, in the 10th or 11th century. The artisan who carved the casket is unknown, as is the identity of the person it was created for, although it is believed to have been crafted for a member of the imperial court due to its themes and the expensive materials it is constructed from. Physical description The Troyes Casket measures 13 × 26 × 13 centimeters. It has six intact, 1 cm thick panels of solid ivory, five of which feature carved inscriptions. The ivory panels are dyed a purplish-red color. Purple was considered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Casket
The Royal Casket ( pl, Szkatuła Królewska) was a memorial created in 1800 by Izabela Czartoryska. The large wooden casket contained 73 precious relics that had once belonged to Polish royalty. The casket was inscribed: "Polish mementos assembled in 1800 by Izabela Czartoryska". It once reposed in the Temple of the Sibyl at Puławy. Contents The relics contained in the casket included: * Portrait of Queen Constance of Austria in a silver dress made by King Sigismund III Vasa * Silver rosary of Queen Marie Leszczyńska * Ivory box in a silver gilded frame of King John III Sobieski * Gold watch of Queen Marie Casimire * Gold snuff-box decorated with diamonds and an enamel miniature of King Stanisław August Poniatowski * Gold watch of King Augustus II * Gold enameled chain of King John II Casimir * Pectoral cross of King Sigismund the Old, made of red jasper in a gold frame with a gold chain * Silver filigree cutlery of Prince Zygmunt Kazimierz * Crystal watch in a gold fram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casket With Scenes Of Romances (Walters 71264)
The object called by the museum Casket with Scenes of Romances (catalogued as Walters 71264) is a French Gothic ivory casket made in Paris between 1330 and 1350, and now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. The casket is 4 5/8 inches high, 9 15/16 inches wide and 5 1/16 inches deep (11.8 × 25.2 × 12.9 cm).Walters The casket is one of the relatively few surviving Gothic ivory caskets decorated with a variety of themes from courtly literature, called composite caskets for that reason. There are at least eight known surviving examples (and numerous fragments), of which two more are also discussed in this article: firstly a casket in the British Museum with an almost identical set of scenes, and one in the Cluny Museum in Paris, which shares many scenes, but diverges in others.Carns p.69. Both Carns and the Victoria and Albert Museum cite "eight", others "at least eight". By this period, Paris was the main European centre of ivory carving, producing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas – Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casket Of Saint Cugat
The casket of Sant Cugat is a reliquary of gold from the beginning of the fourteenth century. It is made with embossed silver plates engraved and partly superimposed on a golden casket of wood, depicting scenes from the life and death of the martyr Cucuphas, Saint Cugat. Its makers were Joan de Gènova and Arnau Campredon. During the seventeenth century, it was dismantled and built in a smaller size in which the plates were reused from the previous silver. The casket was kept in the monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès since the fourteenth century until 1835, when, due to the confiscation of the monastery, the casket with the relics were moved to the church Sant Cugat del Rec, Barcelona. It currently belongs to the collection of the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona. History On 18 September 1303, the abbot of the monastery of Sant Cugat Burguet Pons (1298-1306) received a legacy of Bonanat Basset aimed at building a casket for storing relics of St. Cugat: "Caxiam [...] Argenta et bono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
