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| Keywords: Byzantine - Casket with Images of Cupids - Walters 71298 - Three Quarter.jpg This finely carved ivory casket is decorated with curly-haired erotes cupids in the guise of warriors dancers and musicians The lid shows two in equestrian combat while the trapezoidal panel in front shows a group of four erotes and a centaur dancing and playing musical instruments The rectangular plaque on the casket's front features an eros playing a harp on a stand a chariot drawn by panthers and two other erotes playing musical instruments century 10 Medieval bone ivory wood cm 12 6 18 5 13 5 accession number 71 298 31653 Bought in Italy Edward Joseph London ca 1888 by purchase Sale Christie's London May 6 1890 no 1003 and February 1894 no 357 Isaac Falcke London 1894 by purchase Sale Christie's London April 19 1910 no 166 Jacques Seligmann Paris 1910 by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1910 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Ivory The Sumptuous Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983-1984 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin Constantinople present-day Istanbul Turkey Walters Art Museum license Byzantine ivory in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Reliefs of dancers Cupido Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
