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Box (boite) (End, left)

Box (boite) (End, left)
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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (fittings);wood (core)

Depth: 178 mm

Lid
Register 1: female musician playing the harp; fountain; male musician holding a musical instrument (?).
Register 2: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree surrounded by a woven fence; lady holding a lure for hawks (?).
Body, front
Hunter with a spear; trees.
End, right
Hunter blowing a horn; dogs pursuing a stag; arrow in the stag's chest; sun; tree.
Body, back
Not seen.
End, left
Gathering of pears (?); man holding a club to beat the tree and make the fruits fall; female figure collecting the fruits in her skirt; servant with a stick.
Foliated border. Crosshatched background.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Engraved on all sides.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1984, lot 16.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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