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Cylindrical pyxis (pyxide)

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Subject
Secular.

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Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. 7437

Ivory;metal (mounts)

Height: 82mm
Width: 129-136mm (diameter)

Man fighting a lion with a sword; man in foliage; hybrid.
Foliated decoration.

Frankfurt 1966: France, c. 1200.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, c. 1200 or 19th century (unpublished comment from Paul Williamson, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2011).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: lid; lock.
Two deep vertical cracks.

Provenance
Bornheim Küpferstichkabinett, Cologne: sold to the Museum in June 1936.

Bibliography
Kunst und Kunsthandwerk des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, February-April 1966, no. 103, fig. 14 (p. 19).

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