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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)
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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Leeuwarden, Fries Museum

Inv. FM 2773

Ivory

Height: 79 mm

Standing king with a hawk on his wrist; crown.

Bencard 1975: c. 1250-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Very worn.
Missing: part of the head and of the lower section of the piece.

Provenance
Found in 1922 on the site of Nijeklooster, near Scharnegoutum (Frisia), a Cistercian monastery which flourished from 1231 to 1572.

Bibliography
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 18.


Image

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