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Dagger handle

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 115mm

Lion; man on horseback; man riding a rearing lion; three.
Dog pursuing a hare; dogs

Williamson and Davies 2014: Northern Italian (probably Venice), 1360-1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Hollingworth Magniac at Colworth (in 1862). Christie's, London, 15 December 1982, lot 58.

Bibliography
J. C. Robinson, Notice of the Principal Works of Art in the Collection of Hollingworth Magniac, Esq., of Colworth (London, 1862), no. 162.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 226.

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