The lower part of the casket is decorated with ten arched panels of glass decoration depicting biblical scenes. These panels are separated by 14 busts, male and female, from which emanate gilded 'rays' of glass. White glass 'clouds' surround their heads. The bottom edges of the casket are decorated with straight and barleysugar twist rods of glass in various combinations of colours. The bottom corners are decorated with small 'coils' of polychrome glass. Each scene in the ten arched panels is backed with silk which has faded to a neutral beige colour and some of the glass around the panels is tinned on the reverse. The upper edge of the base of the casket is edged with gimp. The style of lamp-worked decoration is close to that of a number of panels at Schloss Ambras, the place where Archduke Ferdinand of the Tyrol had his court glasshouse, from 1572 until 1591, which was manned by Venetian glassmakers. These panels were already listed in the 1596 inventory of Ambras. However, the style of the modelling, in particular of the figures, the clouds and the rays of light, are remarkably similar to that attributed to workshops in Nevers. Lamp-working was a skill that a craftsman could carry from country to country in his search for employment so it is difficult to associate these pieces with a particular manufacturing centre. The subjects depicted on the casket glass reliefs are: Moses on Mount Sinai Moses and the Brazen Serpent Three kings hanging on a tree, soldiers and dead kings below Agony in the Garden (unsure if this is what is depicted) House with trees Jacob's Dream Sacrifice of Isaac Satan and an angel below a tree, with a recumbent figure, two women below An angel among clouds, above a wood On a rock, three figures with spears; below are two women and a man driving out a boy