Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle

Knife handle

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Subject
Secular.

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Rouen, Musée Départemental des Antiquités de la Seine-Maritime

Inv. 1751 (A)

Ivory

Height: 100mm

Standing lady; standing man raising his hand; standing man with shield; standing man holding a book.
Foliated decoration.
Engraved inscriptions on the top: 'IV', '8', 'IX', '5'.

Joconde 2010 (drawn from the notes of E. Chirol, c. 1940; later curator c. 1960): Italy, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of L. F. Billiard. Acquired by the museum in 1853.

Bibliography
J. Vernier, Musée des Antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure: guide du visiteur. (Rouen, 1923), p. 103.
Joconde, catalogue collectif des collections des musées de France: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 225.

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