London Art Week Summer 2019 - The Renaissance Casket from Newbattle Abbey

London Art Week Summer 2019 - The Renaissance Casket from Newbattle Abbey

15 Old Bond Street London, W1S 4AX, United Kingdom Tuesday, June 25, 2019–Thursday, July 25, 2019

 At London Art Week Summer 2019, Georg Laue, Kunstkammer Ltd and  Trinity Fine Art will unveil a major Renaissance artwork: 

 The Renaissance Casket from Newbattle Abbey is a magnificent  Court Casket with trompe l’oeil marquetry and engraving made in  Nuremberg in 1565 in the workshop of The Master of Perspective. For  centuries the Casket was in the famed collection of the marquesses of  Lothian at Newbattle Abbey, and has not been seen in public since 1883.  The cabinet will be exhibited at Trinity Fine Art, 15 Old Bond Street,  from 25th June until 25th July 2019. Research on this Casket by Georg Laue, Kunstkammer Ltd has established  it as one of the earliest examples of Kunstkammer (cabinet of  curiosities) furniture. More importantly, it connects Wenzel Jamnitzer's  newly-invented perspective machine and eleven important works of South  German marquetry, including the present Casket, that feature polyhedra  in a three-dimensional manner, firmly establishing that they were all  made in the same Nuremberg workshop.