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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front.)

Hair parter (gravoir) (Front.)
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Subject
Secular.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 135 C

Ivory

Height: 252mm

Hybrid with his hands crossed on his chest.
Foliated capital.

Chiesi 2011: Italy, 15th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 241, no. 135.
La casa italiana nei secoli. Mostra delle arti decorative in Italia dal Trecento all'Ottocento, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1948, p. 43.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 523-524.


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