Casket with allegories of the Four Elements

Adam Eck

Maker

Adam Eck

Date

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)

Culture

Czech, Chêb (Bohemian, Eger)

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession

2009.470

Credit line

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