Inv. 16.1082.17
Kneeling youth playing dice; bare-chested youth.
Paris 1986: 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Paris 1998: Paris, c. 1300 or 1st decades of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing a part of the right foot. Broken right hand.
Worn.
Lower part of the handle oxidised from contact with the blade (now missing).
Provenance
Found in a late 14th- to early 15th-century domestic garbage dump in an area north of the Saint-Denis basilica in 1982.
Bibliography
Les Français et la table, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires, 20 November 1985-21 April 1986,pp. 125, 126, 129, no. 105.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 104.
Marco Polo et le Livre des Merveilles, exhibition catalogue, Saint-Denis, Musée d'art et d'histoire, 7 September-3 December 2007, no. 87, p. 133.
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