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Cylindrical pyxis (pyxide) (Side)

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

41.190.253

Ivory

Height: 67mm
Width: 121mm (diameter)

Foliated scrolls (rinceaux) with animals running and fighting, including dogs, a stag or goat, a ram, a dog attacking a bear (?).

Museum's opinion 2012: Northern European, 12th-13th Century with later restorations.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: lid and fittings.
Drilled holes on either side for fittings.

Provenance
George Blumenthal collection: his gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1941.

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