Casket

Date16th century

MediumBronze

Dimensions4 7/8 x 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (12.4 x 24.8 x 18.4 cm)

Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest

Accession number1916.2.32

Collection History

Said to have been in the Palazzo Ducale at Urbino, and in the collection of Prince Barberini, Rome. Sold through Durlacher Bros., February 22, 1910, to J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York. Duveen. Frick, 1916.

Source: Sculpture in The Frick Collection: Italian. Volume III. New York: The Frick Collection, 1970.

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