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Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)

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Side 2

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Subject
Secular. Mythology.

Repository Institution
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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 169 C

Ivory

Height: 157mm
Width: 104mm

Side 1: Thisbe discovers the dying Pyramus; fountain; Thisbe kills herself with his sword; lion; trees.
Side 2: seated Venus holding an arrow; blinfolded Cupid with bow and arrow, aiming at a winged heart; seated putto; trees.
Foliated decoration. Crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2011: France, beginning of the 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Some missing teeth, some broken.

Provenance
Collection Roux of Tours (1868, no. 158). 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. 250, no. 169.
Margarete Gräfin von Tirol - Margareta Contessa del Tirolo, exhibition catalogue, Meran, Landesmuseum Schloss Tirol, 30 June-19 November 2007.

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