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Chess piece (Side)

Chess piece (Side)
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Subject
Secular.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 55 mm

Man riding a dragon; dragon swallowing the head of a man.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Karl Thewalt, Cologne: his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 4-14 November 1903, lot 596, pl. 10.


Image

Out of Copyright. From Thewalt sale catalogue, 1903.

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