Inv. 194 C
Head of hawk with fleur-de-lys and coat of arms (Medici and Toledo families).
Foliated decoration.
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (Florence), c. 1550.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: half the head; beak and sides of the coat of arms.
Provenance
Parted Medici/Toledo coat of arms. Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 255, no. 194.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 461.
La Caccia e le arti, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1960, pp. 76-77, no. V8.
Die Pracht der Medici: Florenz und Europa, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Blois, Château de Blois, 1998-1999, p. 88, no. 27.
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