Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle (Side)

Knife handle (Side)

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Subject
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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 82

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 16mm
Depth: 10mm

Knight in armour on horseback; shield.

Koechlin Number: 1119

Witte 1912: Rhineland (?), c. 1300.
Koechlin 1924: France or Rhineland, 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Cologne (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 94, pl. 84, no. 4.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 418-419; II, no. 1119.

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