
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Casket
Italian · 12th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Achillito Chiesa, Milan, by 1926 (his sale, New York, American Art Association, April 16-17, 1926, no. 368); purchased by the Art Institute, 1926.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, October 2, 1985-January 5, 1986, no. cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25, 2004-January 3, 2005, cat. 2.
- Evanston, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern Universtiy, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, January 26–July 21, 2019, p. 174 (ill.), p. 190 (ill.), and p. 194; traveled to Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, April 8–November 29, 2020.
Literature
Published references
- Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 20, 6 (1926) p. 88, ill.
- Perry Blythe Cott, Siculo-Arabic Ivories (Princeton, 1939), p. 33, no. 18, pl. 7.
- Georg Swarzenski, review of Perry Blythe Cott, Siculo-Arabic Ivories in Art Bulletin, 22 (1940), p. 105.
- José Ferrandis Torres, Marfiles árabes de occidente (Madrid, 1940), vol. 2, pp. 169-170, no. 48, pl. 39.
- R. H. Pinder-Wilson and C. N. L. Brooke, "The Reliquary of St. Petroc and the Ivories of Norman Sicily," Archaeologia or Miscellaneoous Tracts relating to Antiquity 104 (1973), pp. 275 n. 1, 303, 305.
- C[hristina] M. N[eilsen] in “Devotion and Splendor: Medieval art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 21-22, ill., 90, no. 2.
- Christina Neilsen in “The Silk Road and Beyond: Trade, Travel, and Transformation,” Museum Studies 33, 1 (2007), pp. 72-73, ill., 94-95.
- Anthony Cutler, “How and for whom they made the boxes” in Siculo-Arabic Ivories and Islamic Painting, 1100-1300. Proceedings of the International Conference, Berlin, 6-8 July, 2007, ed. David Knipp (Munich, 2011), pp. 21, 24, 27, fig. 11.
- Maria Vittoria Fontana, “Hunting with Cheetahs on Painted Siculo-Arabic Ivories” in Siculo-Arabic Ivories and Islamic Painting, 1100-1300. Proceedings of the International Conference, Berlin, 6-8 July, 2007, ed. David Knipp (Munich, 2011), pp. 125, 134.
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