3-077-799 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Oaken Casket for Bible presented to the Duchess of Fife, 1890. 'Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wales, Duchess of Fife, on Friday, March 7, received a deputation of six ladies - namely, the Hon. Louisa Kinnaird, the Hon. Albinia Brodrick, Miss C. Agnew, Miss Purcell, Miss Bevan, and Miss C. C. Stopford - who presented her with a Bible and casket, subscribed for by the women of the United Kingdom. The carved oak casket, which was entirely executed in Dublin, at 21, Kildare- street, represents one of the earliest Celtic designs, having been reproduced from one which dates from the early part of the eleventh century. It has the quaint symbolical emblems of the early Christian faith. On the lid is an old Celtic cross, and on the four sides are figures representing the four Evangelists. Surrounding each are decorative patterns of antique device'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.