Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle or hair parter handle (gravoir; manche de couteau) (Front)

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
Secular.

Repository Institution
www.musees.angers.fr

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Angers, Musée-château de Villevêque

2003.1.689

Bone or ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 20mm
Depth: 13mm

Youth with a hawk on his wrist; fashionable dress.

Angers 2011: France (?), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Discoloured.

Provenance
Collection of David Duclaux (bought from the gallery Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris): bequest of his widow to the Museum in 2002.

Bibliography
Trésors de la collection Daniel Duclaux (Angers, 2011), no. 34.

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