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Games box (boite à jeux)

Games box (boite à jeux)
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Lid

Bottom

End, right

End, left

Body, front

Body, back

Lid, interior

Interior

Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

Repository Institution
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Madrid, Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas

CE19300

Bone;wood (core);metal (fittings)

Height: 70mm
Width: 155mm
Depth: 186mm

Lid
Register 1: Men holding clubs; tree surrounded by a woven fence.
Register 2: Men holding rods; fountain.
Body, front
Hunter with a spear; archer.
End, right
Dogs pursuing a stag. Hunter blowing a horn; stag with an arrow in its chest; trees.
Body, back
Two men fighting (?); trees.
End, left
Hunter about to spear a boar; trees.
Bottom: chess board (chequered pattern).

Museum files 2010: Netherlands or France, 1435-1500.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy (green) and gilding.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Provenance
Collection of Luis Elvira. Acquired on the Spanish antiques market in 1996.

Bibliography
El Jardín de Melibea, exhibition catalogue, Burgos, Monasterio de San Juan, 2000, no. 85, p. 316.
A. Galán y Galindo, 'Las arquetas de trovadores, canciones, música y amor. Desde Bagdad, a los trovadores medievales, pasando por Córdoba', in Arte, arqueología e historia, 18 (2011), p. 35.


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