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Oval box or pyxis (pyxide) (Engraving, detail)

Oval box or pyxis (pyxide) (Engraving, detail)
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Engraving, detail

Engraving

Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Metal;ivory;enamel

Hunting scene; dogs pursuing a stag; hunter on horseback blowing a horn.
Hybrid monsters.

Fairholt 1857: 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Comments
Fairholt specifies that 'at each end of the box, between the carvings, is a row of quatrefoil ornaments, inlaid with red enamel'.

Provenance
Collection of Albert Denison Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough, (b. 1805, d.1860), by 1857.

Bibliography
F. W. Fairholt, Miscellanea graphica: representations of ancient, medieval, and renaissance remains in the possession of Lord Londesborough (London, 1857), pl. IV, fig. 6-7.


Image

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