Casket with gold leather covered with in the lid AVE MARIA GRA, Casket, rectangular, of wood, entirely covered with gold leather, the cover sloping on the sides. The decoration consists of figures and inscriptions cut into the thin parchment of the covering. On the lid a banderole with AVE MARIA GR, furthermore two rows of naked children among vines. On the edge of the front cover: a few lines of text interspersed with heart shapes. On the upright sides of the box a man's head and three naked children with a nap and lid crucibles between vines, at the rear naked children at the vintage, on the right Hercules struggling with Anteus as have figures, on the left naked children at the wine press. All figures in gold on blue ground with ornaments in red and green. On the inside rosettes, characters, checkerboard and diamond patterns in red, green and gold, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', vine, the giant Antaeus is lifted in the air and crushed to death by Hercules, anonymous, Italy, 1500 - 1520, wood (plant material), parchment (animal material), leather, h 12.0 cm × w 14.1 cm × d 20.0 cm
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