Artist: Michel Mann (Nuremberg, ca. 1589 – 1630)
Date: Nuremberg, around 1600 – 1620
Rectangular chest-shaped box on ball feet
Brass and copper fire-gilded and engraved
Iron blued, inside red silk rope
Decorated with Minnesang scenes and a city scape
In the lid lock with four bars, the key guide under a sliding cover strip
Measurement: 5.3 cm (high), 7.2 cm (wide), 5 cm (deep)
Inside marked “M” for Michel Mann
Provenance: Private property Germany for 80 years
Literature:
Pall, Versperrbare Kostbarkeiten, Graz 2006, Cat.-Nr. 26 a. 28
Berger, Prunk-Kassetten. Meisterwerke aus der Hanns Schell Collection, Graz 1998, p. 117-138