Sicilian-Arabic box in ivory and gilded brass.... Lot 25
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Sicilian-Arabic box in ivory and gilded brass. Sicily, 12th century. H :10,2 W :18 D. 12 cm. Total weight: 900 g. Presumed provenance: Church of Valais, Rutschi Collection, Kofler-Truniger Collection, Brimo de La Roussilhe Collection, private collection from Sarthe. Bibliography: H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen - Elfenbein. Perlmutter. Stein. Holz. Europaisches Mittelalter, I, Sammlung E.und M. Kofler- Truniger Luzern, Stuttgart, 1964. A box of this type appears in the inventory of the Palatine Chapel of Palermo written in 1309 and in the collections of the Musée de Cluny under the number OA6649.
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