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Handle of hair parter (gravoir) (Back)
Handle of hair parter (gravoir) (Back)
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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

Repository Institution
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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 137 C

Ivory

Height: 92mm

Couple embracing (lovers).

Chiesi 2011: Northern Italy, 1360-1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: hair, patterns on the clothes.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 241, no. 137.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 526-527.


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