Jones, Edward Alfred: A catalogue of the objects in gold & silver and the Limoges enamels in the collection of the Baroness James de Rothschild (London, 1912)

A LARGE CASKET OF GILT BRONZE AND SILVER

THE casket is re&angular in form, and is surmounted by a figure carrying a banner,
flanked by kneeling cherubs. Set around the casket are several silver figures in
Roman dress, the Virgin and Holy Child, saints and apostles. It is enriched with
silver panels, representing scenes from the Life of Christ. It rests on four lions of gilt
bronze.
This casket is illustrated in Luthmer’s catalogue of the late baron Carl von Rothschild’s collec-
tion, Vol. II, plate 30.
Total height, 38 cm.; length, 38 cm.; width, 23 cm.
German, third quarter of the sixteenth century.
Plates X and XI.
A similar casket is in the “ Green Vaults ” at Dresden; and another, dated 1567, was formerly in
the convent of St Marie de Belem, Portugal, and is now in the Academy of Fine Arts at Lis-
bon. A third casket of the same kind, which originally belonged to the church of St Michael
at Munich, but now appears to be lost, is described in Leopold Gmelin’s Der verlorene Kir-
chenschatz der Michaels Hofkirche in Munchen.

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Plates X and XI