Although leather boxes of this type are normally described as 'Flemish, end of the sixteenth century' (Gall, op. cit. p.234), the costumes of the figures, the crowded composition and parallels in bookbinding all point to a date in the early seventeenth century, and to Friesland as the most likely place of manufacture. In particular, J. Storm van Leeuwen has kindly pointed out that such caskets were most probably made in the ateliers of bookbinders, judging from the similarities in the stamps and tools (J. Storm van Leeuwen, loc. cit.).