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336 Fiflile Ivor, Cafts.
'73- 442.
THE Cafket of
ginal in the
Square, io| in., H. 5
Cunigunda. loth-iith century. Ori-
Bavarian National Mufeum, Munich,
in.
A quadrangular cafket, the body of oak inlaid with ivory, with gilt
mountings. The top is divided by two diagonal bands ornamented in
the middle and at the angles with the heads of monftrous animals, and
with a circular jewel in the centre, the four triangular fpaces thus formed
being filled in with morfe-ivory carvings reprefenting birds and lacuftrine
animals carved in very low relief and much interlaced. Each of the four
fides divided into three fpaces by metal bands, each fpace filled with a
plaque of fimilarly fculptured morfe-ivory. The bodies of thefe dif-
ferent animals are cut into fmall fquare or circular knobs by tranfverfe
crofs-cutting of the furface. The metal work is ornamented with fhallow
incifed interlaced lines, very much refembling the later Irifh illumina-
tions, whilft the animals have very much of a runic character, greatly
refembling the carved runic ftone found near St. Paul's, London.
Weftwood, in Journ. Arch. Inftitute, vol. x. p. 82. (961.)
'73- 5II#
CASKET. German. 14th century. Original in the
Bavarian National Mufeum, Munich. L. 8f in., W.
4| in., H. 2| in.
Ivory cafket with gilt metal mountings. On the top are four com-
partments. On the top is reprefented, in three of the compartments, the
Adoration of the Magi, and in the fourth is a female faint; none of the
figures have the nimbus. The front, back, and fides are ornamented
with fubjefts of chivalry, a knight and a lady tilting at each other, the
knight in full chain armour with fquare ailettes at the fhoulders ; a
knight galloping away from a caftle holding a lady in front of him, his
hawk feated on the horfe's head; a knight on horfeback, with fpear
fet, chafing a flying horfeman who has difcharged an arrow from a bow,
&c. The workmanfhip is rather coarfe. (962.)
'73- 442.
THE Cafket of
ginal in the
Square, io| in., H. 5
Cunigunda. loth-iith century. Ori-
Bavarian National Mufeum, Munich,
in.
A quadrangular cafket, the body of oak inlaid with ivory, with gilt
mountings. The top is divided by two diagonal bands ornamented in
the middle and at the angles with the heads of monftrous animals, and
with a circular jewel in the centre, the four triangular fpaces thus formed
being filled in with morfe-ivory carvings reprefenting birds and lacuftrine
animals carved in very low relief and much interlaced. Each of the four
fides divided into three fpaces by metal bands, each fpace filled with a
plaque of fimilarly fculptured morfe-ivory. The bodies of thefe dif-
ferent animals are cut into fmall fquare or circular knobs by tranfverfe
crofs-cutting of the furface. The metal work is ornamented with fhallow
incifed interlaced lines, very much refembling the later Irifh illumina-
tions, whilft the animals have very much of a runic character, greatly
refembling the carved runic ftone found near St. Paul's, London.
Weftwood, in Journ. Arch. Inftitute, vol. x. p. 82. (961.)
'73- 5II#
CASKET. German. 14th century. Original in the
Bavarian National Mufeum, Munich. L. 8f in., W.
4| in., H. 2| in.
Ivory cafket with gilt metal mountings. On the top are four com-
partments. On the top is reprefented, in three of the compartments, the
Adoration of the Magi, and in the fourth is a female faint; none of the
figures have the nimbus. The front, back, and fides are ornamented
with fubjefts of chivalry, a knight and a lady tilting at each other, the
knight in full chain armour with fquare ailettes at the fhoulders ; a
knight galloping away from a caftle holding a lady in front of him, his
hawk feated on the horfe's head; a knight on horfeback, with fpear
fet, chafing a flying horfeman who has difcharged an arrow from a bow,
&c. The workmanfhip is rather coarfe. (962.)