Knight on horseback; armour.
Nickel 1969: English, c. 1520.
New York 1975: England or Netherlands, c. 1520.
Museum's opinion 2011: Western European (possibly German or English), c. 1510-1530.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: lower part of the piece.
Provenance
Collection of John Hunt, Dublin; acquired thanks to the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Fund, 1968.
Bibliography
H. Nickel, 'Sir Gawayne and the Three White Knights', in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 28 (December 1969), pp. 174-182 (p. 181, fig. 20).
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, no. 219.
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