Writing Casket

Paduan 16th Centuryc. 1500

Details

Title: Writing Casket
Creator: Paduan 16th Century
Date Created: c. 1500
Physical Dimensions: overall: 7.8 x 20.3 x 12 cm (3 1/16 x 8 x 4 3/4 in.)
Provenance: Baron de Theïs; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6-9 and 11-13 May 1874, no. 884); Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.
Medium: bronze

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