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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

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Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny

OA 157

Ivory;traces of incrusted beads (?) (eyes)

Height: 210mm
Width: 20mm
Depth: 13mm

Fantastical animal (griffin?).

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Italy, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 132): given by him to the Museum in 1856; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée Cluny, by arrêté of 1949, renewed by arrêté of 10 July 1986.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 286.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 132.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 80.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 274.


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