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Box (boite) (Lid)

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

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Bone;metal (fittings)

Lid
Register 1: female musician playing the harp; fountain; male musician playing the flute.
Register 2: youth with a hawk on his wrist; tree; lady holding an unidentified object (a lure?).
End, right or left
Gathering of pears (?); man beating the tree to make the fruits fall; female figure collecting the fruits in her skirt.
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Hunting scene; dogs pursuing a stag; sun; hunter with a spear, blowing a horn.
Crosshatched ground. Foliated border.
Rest not seen.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Engraved on all sides.

Provenance
Otto Seiz collection: sold, Munich, 4 November 1912, lot 991.


Image

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