LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A NETHERLANDISH EMBOSSED LEATHER AND PARCEL-GILT WOOD CASKET
LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With hinged lid and brass handles, lock plates and acorn feet, the body decorated with various hunting scenes, the lock plate later
10 5/8 x 8¾ x 7 in. (27 x 22 x 17.5 cm.)

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Gall, Leder im Europäischen Kunsthandwerk, Braunschweig, 1965, p.234
J. Storm van Leeuwen, De meest opmerkelijke boekbanden uit eigen bezit, 's-Gravenhage, 1983, no. 56

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Lot Essay

Although stamped and gilt-leather 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 clear parallels in bookbinding all point to a date in the early seventeenth century, and to Friesland as the most likely place of manufacture. J. Storm van Leeuwen suggests that such caskets were most probably made in the ateliers of bookbinders, judging by the similarities in the stamps and tools (J. Storm van Leeuwen, loc. cit.).

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