Embriachi workshops, 15c. Stained bone and horn marquetry casket

Embriachi workshops, 15th century

A stained bone and horn marquetry casket

Measures 13 x 34,5 x 23 cm

The casket is of rectangular form, inlaid with bone, green stained bone, ebony, tortoiseshell and boxwood, with a red watered velvet lined interior.

The Embriachi workshop was founded by Baldassare degli Embriachi in Venice in the early 15th century. It specialised in caskets which consist of wood carcases mounted with small reliefs of ivory or cow bone and certosina word borders.

Literature:
L. Martini (a cura di), Bottega degli Embriachi. Cofanetti e cassettine tra Gotico e Rinascimento, Brescia, 17-25 novembre 2001; J. von Schlosser, Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig, in "Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses”, 20, 1899; E. Merlini, La Bottega degli Embriachi e i cofanetti eburnei fra Trecento e Quattrocento, in "Arte Cristiana”, LXXVI (1988); M. Tomasi, La bottega degli Embriachi, Firenze 2001; R.C. Trexler, The Magi enter in Florence. The Ubriachi of Florence and Venice, in "Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History", the University of British Columbia, vol. I, 1978, pp. 127-213.