Gothic Ivories Project | Hair parter (gravoir) or knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

Hair parter (gravoir) or knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

Hair parter (gravoir) or knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

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Subject
Secular.

Private collection, London (in 2013)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 120mm

Lion.
Foliated capital.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing base of gravoir or knife blade.

Provenance
Private collection, London, in 2013 (bought, Bonhams, London, 2 November 2011, lot 129).

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