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Marriage casket
Marriage casket

Marriage casket

Unidentified artist
14th century
Medium/TechniqueIvory and silver
Dimensions6.1 x 10.92 x 8.38 cm (2 3/8 x 4 5/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour
Accession number64.1467
On View
On view
ClassificationsBoxes
Collections
ProvenanceShrewsbury family, England (?) [see note 1]. 1964, Premsela and Hamburger, Amsterdam; 1964, sold by Premsela and Hamburger to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 23, 1964)

NOTES:
[1] According to information provided by Premsela and Hamburger, the casket belonged to "Lord Talbot, one of the judges at the Trial of Joan of Arc" and was passed on by descent within the family to the Shrewsburys until a few years before the MFA acquired it.