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Minne-box
Lost Art-ID
518861
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Bodenseegebiet (?))
Title
Minne-box
Dating
1330 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Leather ; Wood ; Metal (Brass) / leather carving ; embossed
Height
11.00 cm
Width
23.00 cm
Depth
12.00 cm
Inventory number
5265
Description
Box with shallow hipped roof and brass fittings, the middle fitting is not original, but an earlier supplement. The figures show hybrid creatures, some half-bird, half-griffin or half-fish, half-bird. On the front two fighting chimeras, with coat of arms shields or masks and sheet tails. The lid and bottom glued label with text: "2149 gekft [gekauft] 1921 / 1 Truheli XIV Jahrh. 1350 ,- / von Tüschler [?] Antiq. St. Gallen / Wappen Liebenfels b. Eschenz."
Provenance
Purchase Paul Graupe (art trade), Berlin, 1936-10-07
Published since
Contact
DLM Deutsches Ledermuseum Schuhmuseum Offenbach
Frankfurter Straße 86
63067 Offenbach
Germany
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