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Painted comb and hair parter (peigne double; gravoir) (Side 1)
Painted comb and hair parter (peigne double; gravoir) (Side 1)
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Secular. Courtly love.

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Budapest, Iparművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Applied Arts)

Inv. 4982a-b

Ivory

Height: 112mm
Width: 130mm (comb)

Painted decoration
Side 1: standing lady; youth playing a string instrument.
Side 2: standing couple. Foliated decoration.
Hair parter: head of a lady.

Budapest 2002: in a 14th-century style.
Museum's opinion 2013: French, 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive of gilding and polychromy: gold and red.
Painted decoration
Side 1: standing lady; youth playing a string instrument.
Side 2: standing couple. Foliated decoration.

Reverse
Flat and smooth on both sides. Hair parter carved in the round.

Object Condition
The painted decoration is worn in some area.

Comments
The hair parter is 135mm long. Recorded in the Jankovich collection inverntory as the comb of Laura, Petrarch's love.

Provenance
Collection of Miklós Jankovich (1772-1846); transferred in 1836 to the the Hungarian National Museum; transferred to the Museum in 1877.

Bibliography
Jankovich Miklós (1772-1846) gyűjteményei, ed. by Á. Mikó, exhibition catalogue, Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, 2002, no. 186 (E. Vadászi).


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