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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)
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Subject
Secular.

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Niort, Musée Bernard d'Agesci

Inv. 865.3.1

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 23mm
Depth: 16mm

Musician playing the bagpipes; hanging purse; knife; dog.


Koechlin Number: 1128

Koechlin 1924: France, late 14th century.
Museum's opinion: 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Found by Ferdinand Baudry (Abbé Baudry); his bequest to the Museum in 1865.

Bibliography
Congrès archéologiques de France, Fontenay-le-Comte (1864), p. 216.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 419; II, no. 1128, III, Pl. CLXXXIX.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 126.
Entry on Alienor.org, Conseil des Musées: http://www.alienor.org/alienorweb/public/fiche_objet.asp?__TableId=32&__GroupId=286&__FormGroupId=37&__NoFiche=17519(accessed January 2013)


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