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Title
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Sporting Crossbow and Winder ("Cranequin") with Decoration of Hunting Scenes
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HCA Identifier
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51.535
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Collection Location
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The Walters Art Museum
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Date
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1600-1620
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Location
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German
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Description
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The tiller has decorations of scenery of deer and boar driven into nets which were set up to corner prey easily. The decoration also shows delicate tendrils of a vine with little flowers.
“Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 275; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.”
Materials/Media steel, wood, bone inlay, horn, cord
Dimensions/Measurements 30 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (78.1 x 59.7 cm)
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Source
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https://art.thewalters.org/detail/20404/crossbow-and-winder-cranequin-or-crank-with-decoration-of-masks-fruit-and-hunt-scenes-2/
The Walters Art Museum
