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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)
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Subject
Secular.

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Avignon, Musée du Petit-Palais

Inv. 1243 or Inv. 1439 (unlocated)

Ivory

Height: 61mm

Lady holding a dog.

Thiriot 1989: before 1370.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head.
Holes in the neck show evidence of repairs.

Provenance
Found in the (pre-1370) domestic garbage dump of the Petit-Palais in Avignon in 1980 or 1981.

Bibliography
J. Thiriot, 'Le dépotoir du Petit-Palais, Avignon', in L'Eglise et son environnement. Archéologie médiévale en Provence, exhibition catalogue, Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, 1989, p. 89.


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