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Box (boite) (Lid)

Box (boite) (Lid)
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Subject
Secular.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 70 mm
Width: 146 mm
Depth: 178 mm

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.


Image

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