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Games box (boite à jeux)

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Interior

Bottom

Body, front

End, right

Body, back

End, left

Lid

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Pl 23:8

Bone;wood;brass (hinges);iron (lock);metal (rings);linen (lining)

Height: 74mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 184mm

Lid
Register 1: female musician holding a drum (?); peacock; male musician playing the flute.
Register 2: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree surrounded by a woven fence; lady holding a cornucopia; sun.
Body, front
Dog. hunter with a spear; tree.
End, right
Dog pursuing a boar; trees.
Body, back
Dog pursuing an animal; tree.
End, left
Hunter with a spear, blowing a horn; dog; trees.
Bottom: chess board (chequered pattern).
Crosshatched background; foliated borders.

Jülich 2007: Flanders or Upper Rhine, 2nd half of 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (trees).

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Missing: clamp of the lock; some of the metal rings for hanging; some of the framing panels.
Original brass lock replaced by an iron lock.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Marx: Marx bequest to the Museum in 1919.

Bibliography
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 54.

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