Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

11.137.4

Ivory;steel (blade)

Height: 285mm (total); 113mm (ivory only)
Width: 38mm
Depth: 12mm

Winged monster (dragon); foliated capital.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (Venice), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael (b. 1859, d. 1926), London: sale, Christie's, London, 12-13 May 1902. Collection of George R. Harding, London: purchased by the Museum thanks to the Hewitt Fund in 1911.

Bibliography
C. R. Beard, 'Gravoirs and Knife-Hafts; a 19th-Century Fake Exposed', in Connoisseur 101 (1938), pp. 171-175, no. X.

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