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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)
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Side

Side

Side

Subject
Allegory.

Repository Institution
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Leipzig, GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst

1917.44

Ivory

Height: 94mm
Width: 35mm
Depth: 22mm

Three Virtues: Hope with an anchor; Mercy with a bird; Justice holding scales.
At the top: figure on horseback.

Museum's opinion: Denmark (?), 14th century or later.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Bought from a private owner in Dresden in 1917.

Bibliography
K. Marquardt, Europäisches Essbesteck aus acht Jahrhunderten: eine Kunstsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 1997, no. 389, pp. 123, 225.


Image

© GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig. Photography: Matthias Hildebrand.

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