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Box (boite) (Body, front)

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Lid

Bottom

End, left

End, right

Body, back

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

Repository Institution
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S'-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh Castle

Inv. 801

Ivory;metal (fittings);wood (core)

Height: 68mm
Width: 151mm
Depth: 180mm

Lid
Register 1: youth with a hawk on his wrist; fountain; lady holding a lure for hawks (?).
Register 2: female musician playing the harp; tree surrounded by a woven fence; male musician playing the recorder.
Body, front
Hunter with a spear; archer with a bow; trees.
End, right
Hunter blowing a horn; dogs pursuing a stag; arrow in the stag's chest; sun; tree.
Body, back
Winged knights jousting on horseback (or knights with flying cloaks); spurs.
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.

's-Heerenberg, 2008: South Netherlands, 2nd half of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
The bottom was probably originally decorated with a chequered pattern.

Provenance
Acquired by Jan Herman van Heek for the museum from J. Wiergersma in 1955.

Bibliography
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. pp. 48-49), pl. 23.

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