Palermo, Palace of the Normans

Trunk box

Antecedent to 1309, year of its first record.

 

    Box in trunk shape, plated with trapezoidal ebony and ivory sheets, alternated so as to create dichromate hexagons with three-dimensional effect.

Dimensions of the object
52 x 29 cm to base and 35 cm to the overflow

Bibliography
- "L'età normanna e sveva in Sicilia", Catalogo della mostra a Palazzo dei Normanni a Palermo, organizzata dall'Assemblea Regionale Siciliana, Palermo, 1994.

Location
Palermo, Tesoro della Cappella Palatina, Palazzo dei Normanni

Photography
G. Cappellani