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Hair parter (gravoir) (Side)

Hair parter (gravoir) (Side)
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Side, detail

Side, detail

Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Florence, Museo Horne

Inv. 817

Ivory

Height: 210 mm

Animal (ram?).
Foliated capital.

Nardinocchi 2003: Italian, 15th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the head of the animal (ram?).

Provenance
Collection of Herbert Horne (b. 1864, d. 1916), Florence; the museum opens to the public in 1921.

Bibliography
Miniatura del 400 a San Marco: dalle suggestioni avignonesi all'ambiente dell'Angelico, ed. by M. Scudieri and G. Rasario, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Museo di San Marco, 2003, no. II. 48, p. 321 (E. Nardinocchi).
S. Di Marco, A. Nesi, E. Nardinocchi, Con gli occhi di... Bardini, Horne, Stibbert: tre musei per tre collezionisti (Florence 2009), p. 51.


Image

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