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Panel from a casket
Italian
15th century
Object Place: Europe, Italy
Medium/Technique
Ivory or bone
Dimensions
10.96 x 3.49 cm (4 5/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Gair Macomber
Accession Number31.389
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionCarved in high relief, man wearing short skirt, helmet, holding shield in front of him in right hand, spear in upraised left hand. Plain moulding at base,trees, pierced between trunks at top, left corner rounded.
ProvenanceBy 1912, Frank Gair Macomber (b. 1849 - d. 1941), Boston; 1931, gift of Frank Gair Macomber to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 7, 1931)