Casket with allegories of the Four Elements
Adam Eck
In the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 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
