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| Keywords: French - Door with Cat Hole - Walters 64164.jpg This door carved with a linen-fold decoration was probably a back or interior door of a middle-class home It is remarkable for its cat hole Few doors with cat holes have survived from this early period but the 14th-century English writer Geoffrey Chaucer described one in the Miller's Tale from his Canterbury Tales In the narrative a servant whose knocks go unanswered uses the hole to peek in An hole he foond ful lowe upon a bord/ Ther as the cat was wont in for to crepe / And at the hole he looked in ful depe / And at the last he hadde of hym a sighte between 1450 1500 Late Medieval carved oak without hinges cm 174 91 9 4 39 accession number 64 164 18381 Baron Cassel van Doorn Blumka Gallery New York November 1969 Walters Art Museum Baltimore 1969 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1969 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Furniture in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum 15th-century doors Cat doors | ||||
