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Knife handle or hair parter handle (gravoir; manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle or hair parter handle (gravoir; manche de couteau) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Angers, Musée des Beaux-Arts

2004.0.372

Ivory

Height: 80 mm

Saint John the Evangelist holding a book.

Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Auguste Michel (b. 1840 - d. 1918), curator of the Musée Saint-Jean: his bequest, 12 April 1918.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 491, in relation to no. 224.


Image

© cliché musées d'Angers.

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