Lawrence 1969: France, third quarter (?) of the 15th century.
Randall 1993: French (Alsace) or German (Black Forest), 1440-1470.
Detroit 1997: probably German (Upper Rhine), c. 1440-1470.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (background and foliate scrolls), red, blue and brown (costumes), green (trees).
Reverse
Carved on all sides.
Comments
Sliding drawer below the lock at the front (only known example with this feature). Part of group related to a box featuring coats of arms of German families from the region of Baden-Baden and Strasbourg (see C. Beard, 'Heraldry', in Connoisseur, 96 (1935), pp. 238-239.
Provenance
Bought from the Collector's Corner, New York, in 1959 thanks to the National Forge Foundation, at the behest of Duane Wilder, Class of 1951.
Bibliography
Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, XX, no. 1 (1961), p. 27.
The Waning Middle Ages, ed. by J. L. Schrader, exhibition catalogue, Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1969, p. 72, no. 86, pl. XIX.
A. St. Clair, E. Parker McLachlan, The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, exhibition catalogue, New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989, no. 25.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 195, pl. 17.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 74.
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