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Box (boite) (Lid)

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Bottom

Lid

Body, back

End, left

End, right

Body, front

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

Repository Institution
www.ville-bourges.fr

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Bourges, Musée du Berry

Inv. 1865.221.1

Bone;metal (fittings);wood

Height: 61 mm
Width: 152 mm
Depth: 180 mm

Lid
Register 1: youth with a hawk on his wrist; sun. Fountain; sun. Lady holding a cornucopia; sun.
Register 2: female musician holding a drum; sun. Tree surrounded by a woven fence; sun. Male musician playing the flute; sun.
Body, front
Dogs; trees.
End, right
Hunter holding a spear; running boar; trees; sun.
Body, back
Dog running; trees; sun.
End, left
Dog running into a hole; hunter blowing into a horn; dog running; trees; sun.
Crosshatched background; foliated borders.
Chequered pattern on the bottom.

Paris 1900 (if it is no. 190): end of the 15th century.
Museum’s opinion 2014: 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (sunbeams, trunks, hunting horn, foliated decoration), green (trees), brown (ground, foliated decoration).

Reverse
Engraved on all sides.

Comments
Remains of red wax, possibly from the seal of the chapter of Bourges Cathedral (?).

Provenance
Collection of Mrs Damours: her gift to the museum in 1865.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, no. 190 (could also be Inv. 1865.2.15).

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