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Box (boite) (Front)

Box (boite) (Front)
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End, left

End, left

Body, back

End, right

End, right

Interior

Interior

Front

Box

Box

Lid

Lid

Box

Box

Body, front

Body, front

Subject
Secular. Courtly love. Hunting scene.

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Carpentras, Bibliothèque Inguimbertine

2012.0.164

Bone;metal;wood ('alla certosina' marquetry);fabric (inner lining)

Height: 75mm
Width: 135mm
Depth: 160 mm

Lid
Register 1: standing lady wearing a conical hennin; chalice-shaped altar with a vessel; youth holding a flute; sun.
Register 2: Courting couples (meeting of lovers); offering of a flower; tree surrounded by a woven fence; scroll wrapped around tree; lady holding a wreath (?).
Body, front
Two wild men fighting with clubs; shields.
End, right
Couples holding hands; men playing musical instruments; fountain decorated with lion or monster heads; men carrying torches.
Body, back
Hunting scene; arrows; archers; flying birds.
End, left
Courting couples (meeting of lovers); lady holding a scroll; youth man and woman on either side of a tent with a bed inside.
Crosshatched background; foliated borders.
Bottom: chequered pattern (chess board).

Museum's opinion 2012: French, 3rd quarter of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: gold (border, sun, hair), green (tree, ground, border), brown (ground, vegetal border), red (lips), blue (flowers, clothing).

Reverse
Engraved on all sides.

Provenance
Collection of Casimir Barjavel: his bequest, 26 September 1868.


Image

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