Inkpot with a Monk in a Pulpit, A five-sided inkpot, from a solid cube of boxwood, shaped like a gothic construction (pulpit?) with buttresses on the corners, between fields with switched arch windows, four-pass friezes and a border of raised fleurons. The whole stands on three lion's feet. At the top, a monk with tonsure sticks his head out of the pulpit and his arms, without hands. At the location of the missing hands there is an opening in each arm to insert the pen / goose feather. The whole is eroded from the bottom, here is a hole to close the inkwell., anonymous, c. 1380 - c. 1400

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Inkpot with a Monk in a Pulpit, A five-sided inkpot, from a solid cube of boxwood, shaped like a gothic construction (pulpit?) with buttresses on the corners, between fields with switched arch windows, four-pass friezes and a border of raised fleurons. The whole stands on three lion's feet. At the top, a monk with tonsure sticks his head out of the pulpit and his arms, without hands. At the location of the missing hands there is an opening in each arm to insert the pen / goose feather. The whole is eroded from the bottom, here is a hole to close the inkwell., anonymous, c. 1380 - c. 1400, boxwood (hardwood), cutting, h cm × w 6 cm × d cm

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