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Subject
Secular.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 3405

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 5mm
Depth: 10mm

Crowned lady with a hawk (?) on her wrist.

Koechlin Number: 1124

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, c. 1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Damaged by water.

Provenance
Found in the Seine in 1861; given to the museum in 1862 by Arthur Forgeais.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 8045.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 417, 418; II, no. 1124.

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