How you can use this image
This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).
Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.
The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.
Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
The casket has its lid hinged at the rear and secured with a spring-loaded catch with a push-button release. It rests on four turned bun feet. Toledo seems to have adopted the domed casket of sixteenth-century form revived in Spain by Plácido Zuloaga in the 1870s. This casket, rather than continuing the trend for Renaissance decoration, has been created in what was to become the predominant Toledan theme, mudéjar design taken from local architectural sources. This differs from Eibar, with its dependence upon photographic representations of the Nasrid architectural ornamentation of the Andalusian south, or more specifically, Granada. However, even in Toledo, abounding in mudéjar sources, the Nasrid motto and shield are an element from an earlier rather than continuing tradition, and were probably adopted from Eibar models of southern inspiration.
Title
Domed and Footed Casket
Date
20th C
Medium
iron, gold & silver damascene
Accession number
32
Work type
Sculpture