LARGE WOODEN MEASURING BOOK CASSETTE

Lot 174
AuctioneerVAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
Event locationGermany, Köln
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ID 1423788
Lot 174 | LARGE WOODEN MEASURING BOOK CASSETTE
Estimate value
€ 7 000 – 9 000
LARGE WOODEN MEASURING BOOK CASSETTE.

Paris.
Date: Ca. 1500.
Technique: Wooden centre with leather covering, silk or silk velvet, iron. Lined inside with reddish leather.
Description: Rectangular body with a stepped raised centre. Iron bands riveted lengthwise on the hinged
lid. Two loop loops on each side. A double hasp with a tree-shaped relief on the front of
the narrow side of the lock. Flanked by two square fields with openwork ornamentation and
two column-like centrepieces.
Measurement: 14x22x32cm.
Mark: Inside collection label "St. John and Cicely Hornby No C117".
Without key.


Provenance:
Private collection Lower Rhine.

There was a very comparable cassette in the Michel Rullier Collection auctioned in May 2010. See auction Fraysse & Associés, Paris, Collection Michal Rullier, 19 May 2010, lot 250.
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