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Handle (manche de couteau) (Engraving)

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Lady holding a squirrel; fashionable dress.

Koechlin Number: 1127

Gay 1887: France, c. 1360.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Victor Gay (b. 1820, d. 1887); collection of Mrs V. Gay; sale, Paris, 23 March 1909, lot 83.

Bibliography
V. Gay, Glossaire archéologique du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance (Paris, 1887-1928), I, p. 607 (with ill.).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 418; II, no. 1127.

Image

Out of copyright. From V. Gay, Glossaire archéologique du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, vol. I (Paris, 1887).

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