Inkpot with a Monk in a Pulpit, anonymous, c. 1380 - c. 1400 A five -sided ink jar, from a solid block of boxwood, formed as a gothic construction (pulpit?) With buttresses on the corners, between which fields with semi -detached arch windows, Frisians of four passes and an rande of raised fleurons. The whole is on three lion's legs. At the top, a monk with tonsure sticks his head out of the pulpit and his arms, without hands. At the site of the missing hands there is an opening in each arm to insert the pen/goose spring. The whole has been eroded from the underside; There is a hole here to cl

Inkpot with a Monk in a Pulpit, anonymous, c. 1380 - c. 1400 A five -sided ink jar, from a solid block of boxwood, formed as a gothic construction (pulpit?) With buttresses on the corners, between which fields with semi -detached arch windows, Frisians of four passes and an rande of raised fleurons. The whole is on three lion's legs. At the top, a monk with tonsure sticks his head out of the pulpit and his arms, without hands. At the site of the missing hands there is an opening in each arm to insert the pen/goose spring. The whole has been eroded from the underside; There is a hole here to close the ink jar. Southern Netherlands boxwood (hardwood) cutting A five -sided ink jar, from a solid block of boxwood, formed as a gothic construction (pulpit?) With buttresses on the corners, between which fields with semi -detached arch windows, Frisians of four passes and an rande of raised fleurons. The whole is on three lion's legs. At the top, a monk with tonsure sticks his head out of the pulpit and his arms, without hands. At the site of the missing hands there is an opening in each arm to insert the pen/goose spring. The whole has been eroded from the underside; There is a hole here to close the ink jar. Southern Netherlands boxwood (hardwood) cutting

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