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Hunting horn (oliphant) (Front)

Hunting horn (oliphant) (Front)
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Subject
Hunting scene.

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Maastricht, Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius

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Ivory;gilt silver;translucent enamel

Enamelled inscription (blue and red): 'Bien dot il estregentil dedrot - ke le seref se met a mort - nul ne doit che corne porteer - il n'es dine por prendre le singler.' (reading from Bock 1872).
Hunting scenes (enamel).


Koechlin Number: 1249

Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Enamels very damaged.

Comments
The piece has 10 sides with no carved decoration. Rings in the middle where a chain orginally was attached.

Provenance
Maastricht, Trésor de Saint-Servais (in 1924).

Bibliography
Bock and Willemsen, Die Mittelalterlichen Kunst und Reliquienschätze zu Maestricht (Cologne and Neuss, 1872), p. 303, fig. 38.
G. Terme, L'art ancien au pays de Liège. Album publié sous le patronage de Comité Exécutif de l'Exposition Universelle de Liège, 1905 (Liège, [1912 ?]), no. 1469, pl. LXXXV.
Bock and Willemsen, Die Mittelalterlichen Kunst und Reliquienschätze zu Maestricht (Cologne and Neuss, 1872), p. 303, fig. 38.
G. Terme, L'art ancien au pays de Liège. Album publié sous le patronage de Comité Exécutif de l'Exposition Universelle de Liège, 1905 (Liège, [1912 ?]), no. 1469, pl. LXXXV.
"R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 460; II, no. 1249; III, pl. CCVI. "
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 460; II, no. 1249; III, pl. CCVI.


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