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Hair parter (gravoir) (Side)

Hair parter (gravoir) (Side)
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Detail

Side

Side

Subject
Secular.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 158

Ivory

Height: 400mm
Width: 28mm (max)
Depth: 13mm (max)

Man fighting a dragon. Capital.


Koechlin Number: 1145A

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century (style of the 15th century).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Crack in the upper part. Tip damaged.

Comments
This piece is very long for a gravoir.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 287); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 419, n. 7; II, no. 1145A, pl. CLXXXIX.
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 287.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 133.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 81.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 295.


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