LATE 15TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH WROUGHT-IRON MISSAL BOX
LATE 15TH CENTURY
Rectangular with domed top, each pierced panel over red cloth and a wood carcase, double clasp lock
14 cm. high x 23 cm. wide x 34 cm. deep

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Lot Essay

For similar caskets see Ewald Berger, Ornamental Caskets, Stuttgart, 1998, plates 29-30, and Marian Campbell, Decorative Ironwork, London, 2002, plate 185A.

Comparative literature: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the end of the Middle Ages, New York, 1975, p. 149.

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