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Casket with allegories of the Four Elements
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Casket with allegories of the Four Elements

ca. 1650

Medium

Various soft and fruit woods, partly stained and ebonized, carved, ebonized; marbelized paper lined interior; iron mounts

Dimensions

Overall: H. 8 11/16 x W. 16 5/16 x D. 13 in. (22.1 x 41.4 x 33 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts; Gift of Thelma Williams Gill and The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation Inc. Gift, by exchange, 2009

Classification

Woodwork-Furniture

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

Czech, Chêb (Bohemian, Eger)

Rights

Public Domain

About Adam Eck

1594–1664

1604–1664