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Marriage-coffret, 12th century FranceBox painted with floral and animal motifs, Rhine Valley, c. 1300Italian casket with pastiglia, Siena (?), 14th centuryCassone, 14th century Italy (also here; following restoration, here, here, here, here, and here)Coffret with animal decorations, 14th century Rhineland (front, back, side, side)Minnekästchen or document-casket, southwestern Germany, 14th century (it looks like pyrography to me)Casket with ornamental carvings and remnants of painted heraldry, Hessen, 14th centuryCasket (possibly a jewelry-box or reliquary), southern Germany, first half of the 14th centuryA footed box (front), 14th centuryCasket painted with lions, France, c. 1350| CLXX How to do Caskets or Chests. In executing caskets or chests, if you want to do them royally, gesso them, and follow all the methods which you follow in working on panel, for gilding and for painting and for stamping, embellishing and for varnishing, without obliging me to tell you about each step.
 (For more, see section 10of Cennini's Libro dell'Arte.)
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 Casket with representations of the Virtues, Siena, late 14th centuryPainted and gilt coffer, c. 1400Coffret or forzerino made in Florence c. 1400; painted blue, and gilded; features hunting scenes and a fountain of love, and the inscription 'ONESTA E BELLA'A case in the shape of a lion, c. 1400Box with a figure of a young man painted on the lid, Florence, 15th centuryCasket with painted interior, Swabia, c. 1426-1450 (more exterior pictures here, here, here, here, and here; pictures showing the interior here, here, here, here, and here)Miniature trunk with tracery in paper-mache using parchment on wood, Salzburg or Tyrol, second half of the 15th century (also here)Jewel box, Italian, 1475-1525Lute-player from a minnekästchen, Upper Rhine, c. 1480Round painted box with papier-mache, upper Germany, c. 1486-1500 (also here and here)Casket in molded gesso on a painted and gilded background, Italy, c. 1500Painted casket, Nuremburg?, c. 1500 (also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here)Round box with pastework tracery with interior compartments for spices or confections, Nuremburg or Tyrol, c. 1501-1515 (also here, here, here, or here)Writing box made for Henry VIII, c. 1525Gilt alderwood and white lead pastiglia coffer, Venice or Ferrara, c. 1530-1538Coffrets a pastiglia, 16th century Italy: RMN129763 (1, 2, 3, and 4); RMN129763 (1, 2, 3, and 4); and RMN129763 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)Casket, Bavaraia, 1531Casket, 16th century GermanyRound box with silk on wood, Germany?, 16th centuryRound boxes painted with the labors of the months: March, April, June, and July; August, September, October, and November; December; lower Rhine, 16th century16th century German casket with two interior compartments with coats of arms16th century German casket with two interior compartments, 16th century Germany (panel with women sewing and spinning)Oval box with genre scenes, Germany?, second half of the 16th centuryRound box with a pair of musicians, southern Germany, second half of the 16th centuryMinnekästchen, Germany, 1556Round box, Nuremburg, c. 1560-1580 (also here and here)Casket, southern Germany, 1569Box with allegorical figures of Faith, Love, Hope, Patience, and Justice, Germany, c. 1576-1615 |