Gothic Ivories Project | Hilt (fragment of a dagger handle?) (Front)

Hilt (fragment of a dagger handle?) (Front)

Hilt (fragment of a dagger handle?) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Heraldry.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.102

Ivory

Height: 24mm
Width: 68mm
Depth: 11mm

Winged putto with a bow (Cupid); man trying to remove an arrow thrust in his neck; canopies with pinnacles, resting on twisted columns; helm with a bird as crest (crane?); blank coat of arms.
Scrolls with illegible inscriptions. Billeted border. Knotted columns.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (Venice), 15th century (?)

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Inscription on a scroll: 'lanuer de me'.
Columns carved in the round, the rest is smooth and flat.

Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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