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Dagger handle (Front)

Dagger handle (Front)
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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. ZО 4948

Steel (blade);ivory

Length: 420 mm (including handle)

Side 1: man fighting a monster; sword; tree; winged dragon.
Side 2: archer aiming with bow and arrow; monster (winged dragon); tree.
Around the base: head; hybrid creature; lion.
Top: lion; naked figure; tree.

Williamson and Davies 2014: North Italian (probably Venice), 1360-1400.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Italian, end of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Acquired by the Hermitage before 1939.

Bibliography
Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Eremitage Leningrad, exhibition catalogue, Berlin-Köpenick, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1974, no. 114.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 157.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 226.


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