Lid
Register 1: Youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady with a hawk on her wrist; youth holding a flower.
Register 2: Lady playing the harp; male musician playing the flute; lady playing a portable organ.
Body, front
Youth holding a staff; greyhound; lady holding a chaplet.
End, right
Male musician playing flute; lady playing the harp.
Body, back
Youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady with a dog; youth holding a flower.
End, left
Lady kneeling before a youth offering of the heart.
Crosshatched background. Foliated borders of vine scrolls.
Bottom: chequered pattern.
Molinier 1890: French or Italian: 15th century.
Attribution Unknown
Reverse Carved on all sides.
Provenance Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 157.
Bibliography La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 122 (E. Molinier).
Image
Out of copyright. From Catalogue des objets d'art de haute curiosité: Antiques du moyen âge et de la Renaissance, composant l'importante et précieuse Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1893).
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