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Comb (peigne double) (Side 2)

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Subject
Secular. Old Testament. Mythology.

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Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Inv. 345

Ivory

Height: 164mm
Width: 146mm
Depth: 3-8mm

Side 1: Bathsheba receives a letter from David; David, from a window of his palace, sees Bathsheba bathing; fountain; female attendant.
Side 2: Judgement of Paris.
Foliated decoration; flowers; crosshatched background.

Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: German, early 16th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French or South Netherlandish, c. 1520-1530.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Broken vertically in two pieces which have been glued together.

Provenance
Unknown provenance. In the Museo Lázaro Galdiano by 1949.

Bibliography
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 218

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