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Knife handle (manche de couteau)(?) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau)(?) (Front)
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Back

Side

Side

Subject
Religious. Old Testament.

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Pesaro, Biblioteca e Musei Oliveriani

Inv. 3851 (3705)

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 35mm
Depth: 17mm

Original Sin; Adam and Eve; Tree of Knowledge.

Alessandroni 2012: North Italian, 1st half of the 15th century (?).
Museum's opinion: Italian (Tuscany), 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Vertical crack at the back.

Provenance
Collection of Annibale degli Abbati Olivieri Giordani (b. 1708, d. 1789); donated by him in 1756 to the city of Pesaro.

Bibliography
Un ricordo di Annibale Degli Abbati Olivieri Giordani (1708-1789), ed. by A. Brancati, exhibition catalogue, Pesaro, 27 September-30 November 1994, p. 52.
La stanza degli avori: preziose creazioni eburnee sacre e profane tra Pesaro e Urbino, exhibition catalogue, Pesaro, Museo Diocesano, 8 May-16 September 2012, pp. 24-25 (F. Alessandroni).


Image

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