List Ceylon ivory boxes from the 16th century

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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
Robinson box 1557 Victoria and Albert Museum IS.41-1980
Robinson casket
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
small jewelry chest
[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