A fine South German coffin-shaped box containing a skeleton late 17th century

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Description

the box 23.5 cm. long, the figure 16.5 cm. long

veneered in walnut and kingwood, inlaid in ivory with star-shaped motifs and rectangular cassettes, the inside lined in salmon coloured silk and containing the skeletal figure of a man, carved from a single piece of ivory, the skull adorned by a serpent

Provenance

J. Kugel, Paris, there attributed to Lorenz Zick