Inv. 851 C
Lion devouring a man.
Foliated capital.
Florence 1989: Italy (?), 14th century.
Salvatici 1999: Italy, 14th or 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy, c. 1360-1380.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Cracks.
Comments
The blade is decorated along one side.
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
G. Sangiorgi, La Collection Carrand au Bargello (Rome, 1895), p. 30, pl. 80.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 156, no. 851.
C. R. Beard, 'Gravoirs and Knife-Hafts; a 19th-Century Fake Exposed', in Connoisseur 101 (1938), pp. 171-175, no. III.
Arti del Medioevo e del Risnascimento. Omaggio ai Carrand, 1889-1989, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1989, p. 402, no. 186.
L. Salvatici, Posate, pugnali, coltelli da caccia (Florence, 1999), p. 83, no. 85.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 541-542.
Magnificenze a tavola. Le arti del banchetto rinascimentale, exhibition catalogue, Tivoli, Villa d'Este, 2012, p. 164, no. 94 (A. Corti).
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