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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Back)
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Subject
Secular.

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Budapest, Iparművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Applied Arts)

Inv. 18848

Bone or ivory;metal (blade)

Height: 180mm
Width: 15mm

Female musician playing the psaltery.


Koechlin Number: 1126

Walcher von Molthein 1912: France, c. 1400.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 14th century.
Budapest 1971, Budapest 1972, Budapest 1978 and Koroknay 1979: French, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Part of the dress at the back is broken and restored.
Blade restored with the sharp side facing the wrong way (see image from Walcher von Molthein 1912).

Provenance
Collection of Count Franz Emerich von Lamberg (b. 1832, d. 1901), Lamberg Castle, Steyr: Lamberg sale, Vienna, Kunst-Auktion Dorotheum, 1912, lot 69 (Katalog der Besteck-Sammlung Franz Emerich Graf Lamberg. CCXX. Kunst-Auktion Dorotheum, Vienna (1912), no. 69, pl. 5). Transferred from the Hungarian National Museum in 1936.

Bibliography
A. Walcher von Molthein, 'Die Bestecksammlung in Schloss Steyr', in Kunst und Kunsthandwerk 15 (1912), p. 3, fig. 4.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 418; II, no. 1126 (said to be at Lamberg Castle).
Az evőeszközök története, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, Iparművészeti Múzeum, 1971, p. 3 (M. Ildikó), fig. 2.
Az európai iparművészet remekei: száz éves az Iparművészeti Múzeum, 1872-1972, ed. by D. Rodocsay, Z. Farkas, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, Iparművészeti Múzeum, 1972, no. 22.
Kisplasztikai kiállítás a 10.-től a 19.századig az Iparművészeti Múzeum és a Szépművészeti Múzeum anyagából, ed. by É. S. Eszláry, É. S. Koroknay, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, 1978, no. 14.
É. S. Koroknay, 'Elefántcsont faragások', in Az Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményei, ed. by P. Miklós (Budapest, 1979), p. 94.


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