Bentwood Boxes in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

	Bentwood Boxes
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This simple style is aesthetically similar to Shaker boxes. See this thread for additional sources. Box with a figure of a young man painted on the lid, Florence, 15th century Several illustrations of merchants in Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century, including sellers of almond oil (fol. 88), sugar (fol. 89), musk (fol. 90v), camphor (fol. 91), vinegar syrups (fol. 92), and candles (fol. 92v) Evagationes Spiritus, 1430s (also here) The Death of the Virgin on the Wurzach Altarpiece by Hans Multscher, 1437 Prophet Jeremiah and Christ, 1443-45 Exterior of the The Bladelin Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, 1445-50 A copyist in his workshop, Histoire des nobles princes de Hainaut (BMF Fr. 20127, fol. 2v), mid-15th century St. Jerome in his Study (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480 Madonna of the Book by Sandro Botticelli, 1483 Annunciation with St. Emidius by Carlo Crivelli, 1486 Birth of St. John the Baptist by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486-90 Portrait of Georg Gisze (detail) by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532 The Banker and his Wife, Marinus van Remerswale, c. 1540 The Tax Collector, Marinus van Reymerswale, 1542 Oval box with genre scenes, Germany?, second half of the 16th century Round box with a pair of musicians, southern Germany, second half of the 16th century Round wood box with genre scenes and biblical motifs, Nuremburg, second half of the 16th century

Bentwood Boxes

This simple style is aesthetically similar to Shaker boxes. See this thread for additional sources.

Box with a figure of a young man painted on the lid, Florence, 15th century
Several illustrations of merchants in Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century, including sellers of almond oil (fol. 88), sugar (fol. 89), musk (fol. 90v), camphor (fol. 91), vinegar syrups (fol. 92), and candles (fol. 92v)
Evagationes Spiritus, 1430s (also here)
The Death of the Virgin on the Wurzach Altarpiece by Hans Multscher, 1437
Prophet Jeremiah and Christ, 1443-45
Exterior of the The Bladelin Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, 1445-50
A copyist in his workshop, Histoire des nobles princes de Hainaut (BMF Fr. 20127, fol. 2v), mid-15th century
St. Jerome in his Study (detail) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480
Madonna of the Book by Sandro Botticelli, 1483
Annunciation with St. Emidius by Carlo Crivelli, 1486
Birth of St. John the Baptist by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486-90
Portrait of Georg Gisze (detail) by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532
The Banker and his Wife, Marinus van Remerswale, c. 1540
The Tax Collector, Marinus van Reymerswale, 1542
Oval box with genre scenes, Germany?, second half of the 16th century
Round box with a pair of musicians, southern Germany, second half of the 16th century
Round wood box with genre scenes and biblical motifs, Nuremburg, second half of the 16th century