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Collection Online as of March 29, 2023

Writing Casket (lid)

c. 1525

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workshop of Severo da Ravenna

(Italian, c.1496-c.1543)

Italy, Ravenna, 16th century

Bronze

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1941.63.b

Location

not on view

Description

The interior is divided into four compartments for storing writing implements and sand for blotting.

Provenance
(Hermann Goldschmidt, London).
Exhibition history

CMA: Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, 1975, no.95

The Triumph of Humanism. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 22, 1977-January 9, 1978).

Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).

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