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The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
early 9th century
- Medium
- Gilded silver, gold, enamel worked in cloisonné, and niello
- Classification
- Enamels-Cloisonné
- Dimensions
- Overall (with lid): 1 1/16 x 4 1/16 x 2 13/16 in. (2.7 x 10.3 x 7.1 cm) lid only: 2 13/16 x 3 7/8 x 1/8 in. (7.1 x 9.8 x 0.3 cm) vessel only: 7/8 x 2 15/16 x 4 in. (2.2 x 7.5 x 10.1 cm)
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed