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- Marriage-coffret, 12th century France
- Box painted with floral and animal motifs, Rhine Valley, c. 1300
- Italian Casket with Pastillia, Siena (?), 14th century
- Cassone, 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 century
- Casket (possibly a jewelry-box or reliquary), southern Germany, first half of the 14th century
- A footed box (front), 14th century
- Casket painted with lions, France, c. 1350 (use V&A Access to Images and search for 1621-1855)
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 10
of Cennini's Libro dell'Arte.) |
- Casket with representations of the Virtues, Siena, late 14th century
- Painted and gilt coffer, c. 1400
- A case in the shape of a lion, c. 1400
- Box with a figure of a young man painted on the lid, Florence, 15th century
- Casket 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)
- Lute-player from a minnekästchen, Upper Rhine, c. 1480
- Round 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. 1500 (use V&A Access to Images and search for W.21-1953)
- Painted 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. 1525 (use V&A Access to Images and search for W.29:1 to 9-1932)
- Gilt alderwood and white lead pastiglia coffer, Venice or Ferrara, c. 1530-1538 (use V&A Access to Images and search for 10-1866)
- Coffrets 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, 1531
- Casket, 16th century Germany
- Round box with silk on wood, Germany?, 16th century
- Round boxes painted with the labors of the months: March, April, June, and July; August, September, October, and November; December; lower Rhine, 16th century
- 16th century German casket with two interior compartments with coats of arms
- 16th 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 century
- Round box with a pair of musicians, southern Germany, second half of the 16th century
- Minnekästchen, Germany, 1556
- Round box, Nuremburg, c. 1560-1580 (also here and here)
- Casket, southern Germany, 1569
- Box with allegorical figures of Faith, Love, Hope, Patience, and Justice, Germany, c. 1576-1615
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