Lid
Register 1: female musician playing the harp; fountain; male musician playing a string instrument.
Register 2: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree surrounded by a woven fence; lady holding a lure for hawks (?); lady wearing a conical hennin.
Foliated border; crosshatched background.
Rest not seen.
Attribution Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy.
Object Condition Lock later and broken. A few pieces replaced.
Provenance Collection of Ian Woodner: Christie's, London, 5 July 1994, lot 37.
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