Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Provenance
Collection of Pelagio Pelagi (b. 1775, d. 1860); this collection was acquired by the Comune di Bologna in 1860 and subsequently divided between the Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio, the Museo Civico Archeologico and the Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna.

Bibliography
J. von Schlosser, 'Elfenbeinsättel des ausgehenden Mittelalters', in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, 15 (1894), pp. 260-294, no. 18, fig. 10. Fully accessible online as part of the Heidelberger historische Bestände:
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jbksak1894/0318 [accessed 24/07/2013].
P. Ducati, Guida del Museo Civico di Bologna (Bologna, 1923), p. 168.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 464; III, no. 1251C, pl. CCVIII.
Lavori in osso e avorio dalla Preistoria al Rococò, dir. by R. Pincelli, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, Museo Civico, 20 September-11 October 1959, no. 131, pl. 28.
E. von Philippowich, Elfenbein (Brunswick, 1961), p. 73, fig. 57.
Armi difensive dal medioevo all'età moderna. Dizionari terminologici 2, dir. by L. G. Boccia (Florence, 1982), p. 163.
Introduzione al Museo Civico Medievale Palazzo Ghisilardi-Fava (Bologna, 1987), no. 32 (L. G. Boccia).
K. Watts, 'Une selle médiévale d'Europe Centrale au Royal Armouries', in Armes et cultures de guerre en Europe centrale (XVe siècle - XIXe siècle), Les Cahiers d'études et de recherches du musée de l'Armée 6 (2005-2006), pp. 49-66 (p. 59 n. 12).
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