List Ceylon ivory boxes from the 16th century
The following table shows (incompletely) the boxes or chests made of ivory mentioned in the various sources.
designation | Year of manufacture | place | Inventory number | Illustration | comment |
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Robinson box | 1557 | Victoria and Albert Museum | IS.41-1980 | ||
Ramayana box | before 1542 | Kunstkammer Vienna | Kunstkammer, 4743 | Link to the description [1] | |
casket | before 1542 | Kunstkammer Vienna | Kunstkammer, 4745 | Link to the description [2] | |
casket | after 1550 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 1993.29 | Illustration | |
Coronation casket / chest | 1541 | Treasury of the Munich Residence | 1241 | Illustration | |
Munich II | Treasury of the Munich Residence | 1242 | |||
casket | Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore | 2015-00055 | Link to description [3] | ||
small jewelry chest | 1543-1555 | Museum of Asian Art (Berlin) | Identification number. I 9928 | [4] | |
Peradeniya box | University of Peradeniya |
literature
- The local and the global: the multiple visual worlds of ivory carvers in early modern Sri Lanka, Sujatha Arundathi Meegama. In: Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History, UCL 2017, DOI: 10.2307 / j.ctt1qnw8bs