Messenger Box
This box, carved and tooled with an overall vegetal motif, is mounted with iron bands which have openings for straps. Messenger boxes were bound like this for added security. Once locked and sealed, the box could have been strapped onto a saddle.The leather was boiled ("cuir...
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17647
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object
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normalized
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| provenance |
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Léon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| rightsUri |
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CC0
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| language |
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en
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| pageCount |
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1
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_73.17_Back_BW_4598X.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_73.17_Back_BW_4598X.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_73.17_Back_BW_4598X.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/73.17 |
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