Casket with Scenes of Romances (Walters 71264)
The object called by the museum Casket with Scenes of Romances is a French Gothic ivory casket made in Paris between 1330 and 1350, and now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. The casket is 4 5/8 inches high, 9 15/16 inches wide and 5 1/16 inches deep.
End, with Tristan and Isolde talking, watched by King Mark in a tree, and a wounded unicorn
Lid, with the Siege of the Castle of Love at left, and jousting.
Front side including, from left: Aristotle teaching Alexander the Great, Phyllis riding Aristotle, watched by Alexander from a window, and at the right, old people arriving at the Fountain of Youth, and young naked people in it
Walters, back side, with Arthurian scenes
Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters. William Walters began collecting when he moved to Paris as a nominal Confederate loyalist at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, and Henry Walters refined the collection and made arrangements for the construction what ultimately was Walters Art Museum.
Museum entrance, North Charles Street, Baltimore
Phoenician metal bowls
Sumerian male worshiper, c. 2300 BC
Padiiset's Statue, illustrates Canaan - Ancient Egypt trade, c. 1700 B.C. (inscription c. 900 B.C.)
