Bone & Ivory Boxes

Runic casket (Ashmolean AN1892.2492). 9th-11th C.

Casket lid (Ashmolean EA1987.3). Spain - 998-99

Elephant ivory coffer (Louvre AD 4417; UCAD 4417; A 4417; 255). Spain - 966-1500

Animals coffer (Louvre OA 2775; 419; 64). Spain - 1050

Peacock coffer (Louvre OAAD 4342; UCAD 4342; 263). Italy - 1100-1300

Coffer with animals (Museum für Islamische Kunst KFMV 60). Italy - 12th C.

Coffer with lance-shaped hinges (Museum für Islamische Kunst K 103). Italy - 12th C.

Ivory coffer (Louvre OA 6649). Italy - 12th C. 

Tristram & Isolde casket (British Museum 1947,0706.1). Germany - 1180-1200

Fatimid-influenced casket (Benaki Museum ΓΕ 10637). Italy - 12th-13th C.

Openwork casket (Louvre MAO 684). 13th C.

Round box (V&A Museum 1162-1864). Germany - 13th C.

Round box (The Met 12.1a, b). Italy - probably 13th C.

Box with scenes of courtly love (Kunstgewerbemuseum 1882,608). France - 1st quarter of 14th C.

Courtly love casket (Musée de Cluny Cl. 23840). 14th C.

Romance of the Chatelaine de Vergi casket (British Museum 1892,0801.47). France- 1320-40

Coffer with secular scenes (Louvre MRR 78). France - 1325-60

Siege of Castle of Love casket (British Museum 1856,0623.166). France - 1325-50

Wild man casket (British Museum 1855,1201.37). France - 1325-50

Coffret with Rome motif (Louvre OA 2785; ECL 21342). Italy - 15th C.

Sextagonal coffer (Kunstgewerbemuseum 1943,12 a,b). Italy - 1st half of 15th C.

Oblong casket (British Museum WB.217). France - 1400

Hexagonal coffer (Louvre MRR 79). Italy - 1400-35

Court scenes coffer (Louvre MRR 80). 1430

Bone coffer (Louvre MRR 82). 1435-70

Jewelry box (Museum für Islamische Kunst I 9928). Sri Lanka - 1543-55

The Robinson casket (V&A Museum IS.41-1980). Sri Lanka 1557

Painted box (V&A Museum 217-1866). Italy - ca. 1580

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