Lid
Register 1: female musician playing the harp; fountain; male musician holding a musical instrument (?).
Register 2: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree surrounded by a woven fence; lady holding a lure for hawks (?).
Body, front
Hunter with a spear; trees.
End, right
Hunter blowing a horn; dogs pursuing a stag; arrow in the stag's chest; sun; tree.
Body, back
Not seen.
End, left
Gathering of pears (?); man holding a club to beat the tree and make the fruits fall; female figure collecting the fruits in her skirt; servant with a stick.
Foliated border. Crosshatched background.
Attribution Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse Engraved on all sides.
Provenance Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1984, lot 16.
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