id: 106709 accession number: 1924.747 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.747 updated: 2025-02-08 23:33:35.148000 Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve, 1000–1100s. Byzantium, Constantinople, Byzantine period. Ivory, wood; overall: 14.3 x 46.7 x 20.3 cm (5 5/8 x 18 3/8 x 8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of W. G. Mather, F. F. Prentiss, John L. Severance, J. H. Wade 1924.747 title: Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000–1100s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1200 current location: 105 Byzantine creditline: Gift of W. G. Mather, F. F. Prentiss, John L. Severance, J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Byzantium, Constantinople, Byzantine period technique: ivory, wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Byzantine type: Ivory find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 14.3 x 46.7 x 20.3 cm (5 5/8 x 18 3/8 x 8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Greek inscriptions are included in each plaque. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Early Christian and Byzantine Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, (April 24-June 24, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-04-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Monsignor Béthune, Ghent date: footnotes: citations: (Lucien Demotte, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.) date: ?-1924 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1924 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Graeven, Hans. “Adamo ed Eva sui Cofanetti d’Avorio Bizantini.” L’Arte, 2 (1899): 297-315. page number: Reproduced: p. 302-303 url: Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'arte italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901. page number: p. 602 url: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), and Joseph Destrée. Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte. Bruxelles: Bruyland, 1902. page number: No. 4 url: Dalton, O. M. Byzantine Art and Archaeology. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1911. page number: p. 218 url: Frary, I.T. "Ivory Coffert," The Buckeye (September 1924). page number: p. 11 url: Milliken, William M. "A Byzantine Ivory Casket." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 1 (1925) page number: pp. 5-13 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136818 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n14 The Graphic London(1926). page number: url: Gibson, Katharine. “In Spite of Curators.” The American Magazine of Art 17, no. 11 (November 1926): 565-568. page number: url: Eastman, Alvan C. "Byzantine Ivories in American Museums," Art in America 15 (June 1927). page number: pp. 157-68 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n16 Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. page number: p. 18 url: Milliken, William. "Mr. Severance's Gifts to the Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 2 (February 1936): 17-27 page number: Mentioned: p. 26; Reproduced: p. 27 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137748 Milliken, William. "Silver Jubilee Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108 page number: Mentioned: p. 90; Reproduced: p. 96 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140932 Shoolman, Regina, and Charles E. Slatkin. The Enjoyment of Art in America, A Survey of the Permanent Collections of Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics & Decorative Arts in American and Canadian Museums: Being an Introduction to the Masterpieces of Art from Prehistoric to Modern Times. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1942. page number: p. 792 url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. page number: no. 118, pl. XXIV url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 86 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n29 Panofsky, Erwin. Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. page number: p. 45, fig. 25 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 41 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n65 Lassus, Jean. The Early Christian and Byzantine World. London: Hamlyn, 1967. page number: pp. 163-64, fig. 98 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 41 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n63 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 43 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n63 Bernabò, Massimo. Considerazioni sul manoscritto laurenziano plut. 5.38 e sulle miniature della Genesi degli Ottateuchi bizantini. 111, 8, 1 (1978). page number: pp. 135-157, pl. IX, fig. 1 url: Frye, Roland Mushat. Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts: Iconographic Tradition in the Epic Poems. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978. page number: p. 140, pl. 220 url: Goldschmidt, Adolph, and Kurt Weitzmann. Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X-XIII Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Brnuo Cassirer, 1930. page number: No. 67a-e, pls. XLVII, XLVIII url: Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, and Liz James. Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1999. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Cat. No. 25, p. 88-89 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 78-81, No. 23 url: WIlson, Justin. "The Origin of the Crafts According to Byzantine Rosette Caskets." West 86th, 27 No. 2 (Fall-Winter 2020): 197-215. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 197 - 201, figs. 1 and 4. url: Couzin, Robert. Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art. Boston : Brill, 2021, 26. page number: Mentioned; p. 26, n. 30. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.747/1924.747_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.747/1924.747_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.747/1924.747_full.tif