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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)
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Secular.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 62

Ivory

Height: 230 mm
Width: 17 mm
Depth: 13 mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple embracing.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Italian, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Point chipped.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), by 1874; acquired by the museum in 1885.

Bibliography
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 644.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), pp. 9 and 59.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, 'Kostianoi larets XIV veka i rodstvennye emu pamiatniki v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha', in Kul'tura i iskusstvo zapadnoevropeiskogo srednevekov'ia: materialy nauchnoi konferentsii (Moscow, 1981), p. 288.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 156.


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