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Fragment of a knife handle or dagger handle (?) (Back)
Fragment of a knife handle or dagger handle (?) (Back)
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Fragment of a knife handle or dagger handle (?)

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 146 C

Bone

Height: 67mm
Width: 35mm

Knight in armour on horseback; standing knight; sword; tree.

Chiesi 2011: Italy, 1360-1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved and hollow.

Object Condition
Missing: fragment of the lower left part of the piece.

Comments
This piece is related to another one, also in the Museo del Bargello (Inv. 147 C).

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), pp. 243-244, no. 146.
L. G. Boccia, 'Costumi guerreschi negli avori Carrand' in Antichità Viva, II (1963), p. 42, pl. IX.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), p. 539.


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