Wood overlaid with carved ivory and bone plaques with traces of polychrome and gilding
Size
Height: 11.5 cm Length: 40.3 cm Width: 15.5-16 cm Weight: 1.72 kg
Created
Constantinople, 900–1000 AD
Present location
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Identification
216-1865
The Veroli Casket is a Middle Byzantine casket, probably made in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the late 10th or early 11th century, and now in Room 8 of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It is thought to have been made for a person close to the Imperial Court of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and may have been used to hold scent bottles or jewellery. It was later in the Cathedral Treasury at Veroli, south east of Rome, until 1861.[1]
The VeroliCasket is a Middle Byzantine casket, probably made in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the late 10th or early 11th century, and now in Room...
carved in relief as formal presentation Consular diptychs or caskets such as the Verolicasket, hardstone carvings, enamels, glass, jewelry, metalwork, and...
chest is clearly modelled on Late Antique ivory caskets such as the Brescia Casket; the VeroliCasket in the V&A Museum is a Byzantine interpretation...
al-Mughira, 968, Islamic Spain, ivory Troyes Casket, 10th or 11th century, Byzantine (found in France), ivory VeroliCasket, late 10th or early 11th century, Constantinople...
representations of the centrally imposed Dionysus. The mid-Byzantine VeroliCasket shows the tradition lingering in Constantinople around 1000 AD, but...
carved in relief as formal presentation Consular diptychs or caskets such as the Verolicasket, hardstone carvings, enamels, jewelry, metalwork, and figured...
Casket in bone is an Anglo-Saxon version from the 8th century, and the VeroliCasket a Byzantine one from about 1000. Both include mythological scenes, respectively...
carved in relief as formal presentation Consular diptychs or caskets such as the Verolicasket, hardstone carvings, enamels, glass, jewelry, metalwork, and...
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