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Casket (coffret), with openwork panels (plaques ajourées) (Body, back)
Casket (coffret), with openwork panels (plaques ajourées) (Body, back)
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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Red leather;bronze;bone

Body, back
Hunter spearing a stag; hunter with a spear, blowing a horn; trees; dogs.

Williamson and Davies 2014: Upper Rhenish, middle of 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Metal mount to the left of clasp hinge on front damaged. Repairs and fills made elsewhere, number of restorations, including leather, likely made around 1830.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (b. 1783, d. 1848), Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, by inheritance, 1836-1848; collection of Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Meyrick, by inheritance; collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 156.

Bibliography
S. R. Meyrick, 'The Doucean Museum', in Gentleman's Magazine (April 1836), p. 383, no. 13.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 239.


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Out of Copyright. From Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité : antiques, du moyen-age et de la Renaissance composant l'importante et précieuse collection Spitzer dont la vente publique aura lieu a Paris [...]du lundi 17 avril au vendredi

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