Ivory box with a flanged lid. Lancet-shaped hinges, top handle with snake-shaped ends, corner pieces with cut edges and a humpback lock with gilded copper hasp.
Southern Europe, Siculo-Arabic, 14th century
Height : 14 cm - Width : 17,8 cm - Depth : 11,5 cm - Gross weight : 775,9 g (small accidents and missing pieces)
The realization of this box is situated in the last period of artistic production siculo-Arabic, which began in XIIe century in Sicily and lasted in Italy and in Spain in particular in Andalusia, until XIVe century
This object has a CITES certificate
A siculo-arabic gilt copper mounted ivory casket, Southern Europe, 14th century
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