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Box (boîte) (Lid)
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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

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Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum

M1991.77

Bone;wood (core)

Height: 70mm
Width: 153mm
Depth: 185mm

Lid
Wild men with clubs and shields; monsters (dragons).
Body, front
Two seated men.End, rightHunter holding a spear; boar, tree.
Body, back
Two dogs.
End, left
Hunter blowing a horn; dog running.
Foliated borders. Crosshatched background.

Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Alsace) or German (Black Forest), 1440-1470.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Engraved on all sides.

Object Condition
Missing: lock.

Provenance
Collection of Richard and Erna Flagg (in 1993): gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Flagg to the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 197.
L. Winters et. al, A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (New York, 1999), no. 39.


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© Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee. Photography: P. Richard Eells.

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