Box
Unknown
early 17th century · Sycamore wood, painted and gilt · 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 gilt
- Culture
- British
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
