Youth with a hawk on his wrist.
Read 1900: English (London), 14th century.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Features worn.
Provenance
Found in London. Collection of Sir Charles Hercules Read (b. 1857, d. 1929); British Museum, by donation, 1900.
Bibliography
C. H. Read, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, second series, XVIII, 1900, pp. 115-116.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 366.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 417-419; II, no. 1123.
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