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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

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Stockholm, Historiska museet (The Swedish History Museum)

Inv. 2918:5:5

Bone

Height: 70 mm

Standing youth with a hawk on his wrist; youth feeding a hawk.

Bencard 1975: c. 1400.
Museum's opinion 2013: Swedish (Scania)?, end of the 14th- beginning of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Incised inscription: ‘A.Br’ (for Arvid Bruzelius).

Provenance
Found in Scania; collection of Prof. Arvid Sture Bruzelius (Lund); acquired by the Museum between 1860 and 1861.

Bibliography
M. Bencard, 'Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe', in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 9.

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