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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)
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Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Inv. AN1886.13.a

Bone

Height: 85 mm
Width: 15 mm
Depth: 9 mm

Standing lady with a hawk on her wrist.

Bencard 1975: c. 1250-1350.
Museum's opinion 2014: English (?), 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Discoloured. Hole in the base to fit the blade.
Missing: upper part of lady's head. Back of the headdress chipped.

Provenance
Found by chance in Shire Ditch, Oxford. Purchased in 1886.

Bibliography
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 13.
M. Hook and A. MacGregor, Medieval England: Archaeological and Decorative Art Collections in the Ashmolean Museum from Alfred the Great to Richard III (Oxford, 1997), p. 58, fig. 78.


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