Annunciation Triptych Pouch - 1375-1400??

[Gregoire de Lyon]

The Annunciation Triptych pouch, as seen HERE is dated per the painting to circa 1425.

Do we have any evidence that simlar furniture would be used on pouches 50 or so years earlier?

Thanks,

[Karen Larsdatter]

See http://www.larsdatter.com/pouches.htm for several examples of men wearing this particular shape of pouch, including several 14th century appearances.

But as to similar metal-mount "furniture" on this style of pouch -- the only other examples I've seen were also from the 15th century:

• Cheese in a 15th century Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333)
• The Cure of Folly by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1475-1480
• Illustration from the Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510

There's several other 15th century pouches with fancy ornamentation on the surface of the pouch, or really ornate purse bars or purse frames -- but these are the closest to that Engelbrecht purse on the Mérode Altarpiece, I think!

[Gregoire de Lyon]

Thanks Karen! I had hoped you would see this and respond.