Three Virtues: Hope with an anchor; Mercy with a bird; Justice holding scales.
At the top: figure on horseback.
Museum's opinion: Denmark (?), 14th century or later.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Bought from a private owner in Dresden in 1917.
Bibliography
K. Marquardt, Europäisches Essbesteck aus acht Jahrhunderten: eine Kunstsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 1997, no. 389, pp. 123, 225.
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