Gothic Ivories Project | Lid (fragment of a box), 2 registers (boite) (Lid)

Lid (fragment of a box), 2 registers (boite) (Lid)

Lid (fragment of a box), 2 registers (boite) (Lid)

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Lid, front

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Vic, Museu Episcopal de Vic

Inv. MEV 4159

Walnut wood (core);metal;ivory

Height: 180 mm
Width: 150 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Register 1: youth with a hawk on his wrist; peacock; lady holding a cornucopia (?).
Register 2: lady playing the harp; fountain; male musician playing the flute.
Crosshatched background; foliated borders.

Galán y Galindo 2011: Italian, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Italian (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Only the lid remains.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum in 1910.

Bibliography
A. Galán y Galindo, 'Las arquetas de trovadores, canciones, música y amor. Desde Bagdad, a los trovadores medievales, pasando por Córdoba', in Arte, arqueología e historia, 18 (2011), p. 33.

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