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Falcon-hood stand (Side)

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Subject
Secular.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 193 C

Ivory

Height: 57mm

Head of hawk with carved inscription around the base: 'FORME DA SEMERLO PISSULE'.
Two birds and two dogs.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy, 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: end of the beak.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 255, no. 193.
La Caccia e le arti, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1960, pp. 76-77, no. V8..

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