Coffret (Primary Title)
Box (Former Title)

Master of the Boar, Swiss, active 14th century (Artist)

ca. 1350
Swiss
Containers-Boxes
Decorative Arts
leather, iron
Place Made,Switzerland,Chur
Overall: 3 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (9.53 × 15.88 × 8.89 cm)
64.30.3
Not on view
This box is decorated in a style typical of 14th-century Swiss leatherwork, including the embossed animal and foliate motifs. It probably held important documents or small objects, protected from theft or tampering by the fox and dragon-two symbols of the devil-aside the lock.
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund
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