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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

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Pax (baiser de paix)

Subject
Secular.

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Solingen, Deutsches Klingenmuseum

Inv. 2006.M.001

Ivory

Height: 460mm
Width: 71mm (incl. blade)
Weight: 284mm

Crouching winged creature (griffin?).

Museum's opinion 2013: Italian (probably Venice), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 13 April 1978, lot 51; collection of Klaus Marquardt; acquired in 2006.

Bibliography
K. Marquardt, Europäisches Essbesteck aus acht Jahrhunderten: eine Kunstsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 1997, pp. 18, 19 and 196.

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