Kästchen mit Figurenrelief
Box with Figure Relief
Kunstpalast - LVR-ZMB - Stefan Arendt/ARTOTHEK

Box with Figure Relief, ca. 1410

DesignEmbriachi-Werkstatt, 1300–1499
ExecutionEmbriachi-Werkstatt, 1300–1499
Walnut, horn, ivory
(H x W x D)8 × 13,2 × 13,2 cm
Status
on display, room 001.1
About the workThe market for luxury items in Europe grew due to increasing long-distance trade and the import of foreign raw materials such as ivory. One of the leading workshops in this regard was that of the Venetian carver Baldassare degli Embriachi. Beginning in 1395, he produced items such as these small altars and boxes. The combination of inlaid wood and animal bone with ivory carvings is typical of his work. Created in large numbers, these artistic objects were exported throughout Europe and imitated beyond Venice.
AccessionAcquired 1927 from the Kunstgewerbemuseum
Provenance[...]; bis 19.1.1910 Henri Kautsch, Bildhauer, Paris; 19.1.1910 - 1927 ehem. Kunstgewerbemuseum Düsseldorf (1883-1927) erworben von Kautsch; 1927 übernommen aus dem Kunstgewerbemuseum


Inventory numberP 18622
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