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Box (boîte)

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Subject
Secular.

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1979.50.5a-b

Bone;wood (core)

Height: 69mm
Width: 172mm
Depth: 151mm

Lid
Register 1: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree surrounded by a woven fence; standing lady.
Register 2: female musician playing the harp; fountain; sun; male musician blowing a horn.
Body, front
Running dog; hunter on foot.
End, right
Hunter blowing a horn; tree; bear.
Body, back
Two dogs; tree.
End, left
Dog pursuing a fox.
Foliated borders. Crosshatched background.
Bottom: chequered pattern.

Randall 1993: French (Alsace) or German (Black Forest), 1440-1470.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair), green (trees and leaves), brown and black.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Missing: lock and hasp.

Comments
Four small rings, two on each side, for a carrying strap (Randall 1993).

Provenance
Gift of Ruth L. Koch in 1979 from the Alfred B. Koch collection.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 196.

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