Currently not on view
Game box,
ca. 1440–70
French or German (Black Forest)
y1959-11
This box shows scenes of musicians, dancers, wildmen, and hunters on its decorated panels. It may have originally held checkers or game pieces for draughts. The shallow drawer at the bottom is mysterious, but might have housed a scorecard. At some point, the clasp on the box was broken and replaced with one in a later style.
Information
Title
Game box
Dates
ca. 1440–70
Medium
Bone, tortoiseshell, and wood
Dimensions
9.7 x 14 x 15.7 cm (3 13/16 x 5 1/2 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the National Forge Foundation at the behest of Duane Wilder, Class of 1951
Object Number
y1959-11
Place Made
Germany, Black Forest
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
(Collector's Corner, New York); 1959 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.
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"Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.
, p. 27 - Archer St. Clair, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The carver's art, Medieval sculpture in ivory, bone, and horn, (New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989)., cat. no. 25
- Richard Randall, The golden age of ivory: Gothic carvings in North American collections, (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993)., p. 30 (illus.); no. 195 (illus.); pl. 30; p. 128-129
