Trencher with quotation from The Governance of Virtue (1566) (one of a set)

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early 17th century · Sycamore wood, painted and gilded · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

One of a set of twelve trenchers (64.101.1579–.1590) and a box (64.101.1591a, b). In center of trenchers are reserves containing moralising inscriptions. See also 64.101.1566–1578a, b, for a set of trenchers and box, probably from the same workshop, inscribed with humorous four-line verses on the relations between married people.

Artist

Unknown

Date

early 17th century

Medium

Sycamore wood, painted and gilded

Culture

British

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964