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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

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Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica

Inv. 154/AV

Ivory;gilt metal

Height: 320mm

Two fighting knights in armour; tower.

Mallé 1969: Northern Italy, 15th century?
Museum's opinion 2010: North Italian, 15th century or 19th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 180.

Provenance
Collection of princes Trivulzio (Milan); bought from prince Luigi Alberico Trivulzio through the antique dealer Pietro Accorsi (Turin) in 1940.

Bibliography
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), p. 304, pl. 163.

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