A SMALL CASKET, EMBRIACHI WORKSHOP, FIRST QUARTER 15TH CENTURY SMALL CASKET, EMBRIACHI WORKSHOP, FIRST QUARTER 15TH CENTURY made of wood and bone with bronze handle, rectangular in shape with a sloping lid. The faces of the box, bordered at the corners by carved plaques with figures with club and shield, are decorated with a sequence of vertical carvings with pairs of figures or a single figure and in the background a barely sketched landscape, limited to a simple fringe on the upper edge indicating tree foliage. The lid, on the other hand, is decorated on the front and back with the usual horizontal plaques with winged genii dressed in a tunic against a background of rose leaves, holding the shield where the family insignia was painted; 14.5x16x10.5 cm Comparative literature L. Martini (ed.), "Bottega degli Embriachi". Cofanetti e cassettine tra Gotico e Rinascimento , exhibition cat., Brescia 2001, pp. 42-43 n. 6