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Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)
Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)
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Subject
Secular.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Width: 140mm

Side 1
Virgil and Aristotle; Virgil ridiculed in the basket, hanging from the battlements; Fountain of Youth; hunters holding spears; two hybrids.
Side 2
Aristotle ridden by Phyllis; hunter spearing a boar; archer aiming with bow and arrow; lady holding a dog; two hybrids.


Koechlin Number: 1150

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century or early 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
One of the teeth is broken.

Provenance
Zichy collection. Tross collection. Collection of Eugen Felix, Cologne: sale, Cologne, 25 October 1886, lot 332 or 322 (tbc). Collection of S. Figdor, Vienna (in 1924).

Bibliography
Exhibition catalogue, Leipzig, 1879, no. 509, pl. XXIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 427, 440, 507; II, no. 1150; III, pl. CXCII.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Allegory and Romance on a Mediaeval French Marriage Casket', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948), pp. 112-142 (p. 124, pl. 30c).


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