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Comb (peigne simple) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. 1623

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 71mm

She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus.

Destrée 1902: 15th-16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
The ivory has become brown because was buried for an extended period of time.
Missing: teeth, part of the background to the right of the she-wolf.

Provenance
Found buried near Brussels.

Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 29 (2833).

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