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Source Description
Scenes of lovers and walled towns decorate both sides of this ivory box, which once contained wax for letter writing. The sliding cover depicts three ladies in the town, looking over its walls at two embracing couples seen to the left. The bottom of the box shows the same town at greater distance, a tent with two more lovers, a hawking expedition, and a hermit reading outside his rustic cell.
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Document identity
localId
30473
label
Box for Writing Wax with Hawking Scene
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obj
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object
citationUrl
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3
Source metadata
id
30473
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Box for Writing Wax with Hawking Scene
description
Scenes of lovers and walled towns decorate both sides of this ivory box, which once contained wax for letter writing. The sliding cover depicts three ladies in the town, looking over its walls at two embracing couples seen to the left. The bottom of the box shows the same town at greater distance, a tent with two more lovers, a hawking expedition, and a hermit reading outside his rustic cell.
provenance
Sale, Cologne, December 14, 1893, no. 92; Marcus Antocolsky, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 10, 1901, no. 73; Georgi Robinson Harding, London, 1901, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 15, 1901, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1340-1360 (Medieval)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
boxes (containers)
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3
pageCount
3
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
9.3
height
5.4
dimensionsRaw
3 11/16 x 2 1/8 in. (9.3 x 5.4 cm)
Source extras
cul
French
style
Gothic
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ivory
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6476
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MED
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none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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915c7764516dc608
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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65807219e7f800f0
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no
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no
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3
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photo
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b59b0ccf2d324f4a
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no
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no