In the Kloss collection there is a set of rituals ascribed to Baron von Löwen. On the tracing board for the degree “Maitre Parfait” there is a rope connecting what appears to be both halves of the tracing board. It goes from the St. Andrew’s Cross (rather: crossed pillars) to the coffin.
There are also simpler “Maitre Parfait” tracing boards without the two halves. In a somewhat different form, you can see the same image on the “Scots Master” tracing board (see sanctuary).
In Exploring the Vault (2024) an old “Maitre Parfait” catechism is translated. It contains the question:
What is the meaning of the rope that hangs from the coffin and ends up in the sanctuary?
It represents the rope the brothers used to pull Hiram’s corpse down into the coffin.
Another beautiful example can be found is the one below, but here the coffin is actually within the tracing board.
It seems that a very similar tracing board in still used in the French Rite Écossais Ancien et Accepté.
Top: collection (1844) of Georg Kloss (1787-1854) (Collection de 84 tableaux, Kl.MS:XXV.1)
Middle left: 18th century painting from Mons, Belgium. They are reprinted online and in print on several places. Facsimiles of the entire collection appear in Dix-Sept Tableaux Symboliques du XVIIIe Siecle (1992) by Maurice-Aurélien Arnould (1914-2001)
Middle right: Feddersen (Die Arbeitstafel in der Freimaurerei Band I (1982) SD/5, P. 487) from 1748
Bottom: Bibliotheque Nationale de France – Fonds Maçonnique – FM4 (74)