Italian Quattrocento Marriage Casket Element. Carved bone plate in high relief, originally fixed to a wooden casket structure, depicting a couple in conversation, in traditional attitude of restraint. See: https://www.fg-art.org/en/artwork-of-the-month-archives/marriage-casket. Size: 2.5'' x 1.25'' x .25'' (6 x 3 x 1 cm). Ex. estate collection of Diana and Lawrence Fane.

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