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Games box (boîte à jeux)

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Lid

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

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S/n

Wood (core);metal (fittings);bone

Height: 70mm
Width: 140mm
Depth: 178mm

Lid
Register 1: male dancer; female dancer; male dancer.
Register 2: male dancer; musician with drum and whistle; dancing jester.
Body, front
Hunters on foot; archer aiming with bow and arrow; trees.
End, right
Hunting scene; dogs pursuing a stag; hunter blowing a horn; trees.
Crosshatched background; foliated borders.
Rest not seen.

New York 1975: France, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Engraved on all sides.

Provenance
Demotte collection, early 20th century. Ernest Brummer collection: his sale, Galerie Koller and Spink and Son, Zürich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 88.

Bibliography
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, no. 220.

Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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