Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 94mm

Standing lady holding a dog.

Koechlin Number: 1121

Destrée 1902: France?, mid 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: 14th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Remains of the blade.
Discolouration: the ivory has become brown from being immersed in the river Escaut where it was found in 1844.

Provenance
Found in the river Escaut in 1844. Vermeersch bequest, in 1911.

Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 21 (438).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 418; II, no. 1121.

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