File:Byzantine - Box with Scenes from the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Story of Joseph - Walters 71295 - Left.jpg
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Box with Scenes from the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Story of Joseph |
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English: The front of this casket depicts the Fall of Adam and the Temptation of Eve, flanking the Sorrowing Adam below the lockplate. A fourth plaque on the back of the casket portrays Adam hiding behind a tree and covering his nudity. The large rectangular plaque set into the casket's lid shows the Old Testament patriarch Jacob ordering his son Joseph to follow his brothers, and the Angel of the Lord guiding his way. These Old Testament images must have been intened as moral examples for the box's owner. It was probably used in a private home for the safekeeping of valuables.
In Constantinople, where urban life, especially in the middle Byzantine period (843-1204) surpassed that of any western center, luxury items such as boxes made of ivory and bone were in great demand and produced serially. A number of details point toward such a system of manufacture: many extant boxes have similar dimensions, and often the borders were cut to size and used as fillers. The plaque on the lid of this box with biblical scenes is smaller than the allotted space, a sign that it was not made to measure. Likewise, the presence of peg holes prepared but not drilled through (like those in the upper left border) indicates that the plaque was part of a stockpile and not custom made. These techniques allowed workshops to produce more affordable wares, thus meeting the needs of a larger market. The wealthier patrons might order a custom-made box covered in ivory plaques, consumers of more modest means could purchase a box decorated with the plaques and strips of carved bone that the workshop kept in stock. |
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Date |
10th century date QS:P571,+950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 (Middle Agesera QS:P2348,Q12554 ) |
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Medium | bone and ivory on wood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 18.7 cm (7.3 in); width: 27.8 cm (10.9 in); depth: 17.9 cm (7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,18.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,27.8U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,17.9U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
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Accession number |
71.295 |
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Place of creation | Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibition history | Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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[Translation] Jacob Sending Joseph out to His Brothers Angel of the Lord The Transgression of Adam [The] Snake Speaking to Eve |
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Source | Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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