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Box (boîte) (Body, back)

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End, right

End, left

Body, front

Bottom

Front

Lid

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

Repository Institution
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Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Inv. 1924.13

Metal (fittings, including lock and hinges);wood (core);bone

Height: 70mm
Width: 155mm
Depth: 185mm

Lid
Register 1: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree surrounded by a woven fence; lady holding a lure for hawks (?); lady wearing a conical hennin.
Register 2: female musician playing the harp; lady wearing a conical hennin; fountain; male musician playing the flute.
Body, front
Two wild men holding clubs; trees.
End, right
Gathering of pears (?); man holding a club to beat the tree and make the fruits fall; female figure collecting the fruits in her skirt; standing lady wearing a conical hennin; servant with a stick.
Body, back
Hunter with a spear; archer with a bow; trees; flowers
End, left
Hunter on foot blowing a horn; dogs pursuing a stag; trees; sun.
Bottom: chequered pattern (chess board).
Foliated border; crosshatched background.

Philippowich 1961: French, c. 1480-1490.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold, brown, green.

Reverse
Engraved on all sides.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum in 1924. [Provenance information not yet communicated]

Bibliography
E. von Philippowich, Elfenbein (Brunswick, 1961), pp. 78-79, fig. 61.
Hans und Barbara Holländer: Schachpartie durch Zeiten und Welten, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2005, pp. 86-88.

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