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Couly Noyier IIborn and died Limoges, France, 1514 - 1571 Casket: Scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, between 1525 and 1550 enamel and gilding on copper, leather 14.7 x 18.1 x 12.7 cm The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

Couly Noyier II
born and died Limoges, France, 1514 - 1571

Casket: Scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, between 1525 and 1550
enamel and gilding on copper, leather
14.7 x 18.1 x 12.7 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

Songye Artist Democratic Republic of the Congo Male Figure possibly late 1800s wood, copper alloy, ferrous metal, glass beads, ivory, leather with remnants of fur, reptile skin, shell, textile, applied coating Gift from the Frum collection, 1999

Songye Artist
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Male Figure
possibly late 1800s
wood, copper alloy, ferrous metal, glass beads, ivory, leather with remnants of fur, reptile skin, shell, textile, applied coating
Gift from the Frum collection, 1999

Ivory: German Sculptor Silver: David Schwestermüller born Ulm, Germany, 1596; died Augsburg, Germany, 1678 Tankard: Bacchanal with the Drunken Silenus, and the Infant Silenus, mid-17th century Based on the 1616-1617 painting by Peter Paul Rubens ivory and gilded silver; leather case 30.0 x 22.5 x 16.0 cm The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

Ivory: German Sculptor
Silver: David Schwestermüller
born Ulm, Germany, 1596; died Augsburg, Germany, 1678

Tankard: Bacchanal with the Drunken Silenus, and the Infant Silenus, mid-17th century
Based on the 1616-1617 painting by Peter Paul Rubens
ivory and gilded silver; leather case
30.0 x 22.5 x 16.0 cm
The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario