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Hair parter (gravoir) or knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)

Hair parter (gravoir) or knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)
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Bottom

Subject
Secular.

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Nantes, Musée Thomas Dobrée

Inv. 56.2132

Ivory

Height: 73mm
Width: 19mm
Depth: 14mm
Weight: 17.3g

Standing female figure with a hawk (?) on her wrist; dog.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Hole in the base.

Object Condition
Missing: head; part of the bird on the figure's proper left side. Very damaged, possibly from having been buried.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.


Image

© Cliché Chantal Hémon, Musée Dobrée, Conseil général de Loire-Atlantique, Nantes.

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