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Door and Frame
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated late 1400s. Recorded culture or place: France, late 15th century.
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- Museum title
- Door and Frame
- Date
- late 1400s
- Culture / origin
- France, late 15th century
- Materials and technique
- oak with traces of polychromy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 278.9 x 104.8 x 14 cm (109 13/16 x 41 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1916.2051
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This elaborately carved door and frame was intended for use in a protected interior space as suggested by the delicate open tracery above and its use of polychromy. Though its original context is unknown, the door's placement may have been within either a domestic or ecclesiastical building. The inscription in Old French—Mal vit qui ne mande—is enigmatic and has been suggested to translate roughly as "He lives badly who does not ask." The source of the inscription is unclear but may have been a proverb or motto current during the time.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust · CC0
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