Courtly Amber Casket (ca. 1695) by Gottfried Wolffram

Alan Darr, head of the department of European Art at the DIA, discusses a courtly amber casket with ivory reliefs was produced for a northern European court, most likely by Gottfried Wolffram, a sculptor of both ivory and amber active in Denmark and Germany at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century.

 

 


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  • 9-12-2010

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