Lid
Register 1: lady playing the harp; lady wearing a conical hennin; peacock; male musician playing the recorder.
Register 2: youth with a stick; tree surrounded by a woven fence; standing lady.
Body, front
Two wild men holding clubs and shields; tree.
End, right
Hunting scene; boar; hunter with a spear.
Body, back
Two dogs running.
End, left
Hunter blowing into a horn; dog running.
Foliated border. Chequered pattern on the bottom.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 15th - 16th century.
Attribution Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse Carved on all sides.
Provenance Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Friedman: gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Friedman to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954.
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