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Knife handle (manche de couteau)

Knife handle (manche de couteau)
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Subject
Secular.


Unknown location

S/n

Bone;iron (rusted iron insert formerly connecting the blade).

Height: 85mm

Standing lady with a hawk on her wrist; stick; crown.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Found at Billingsgate, London (recovered from the spoil removed from the site of the Billingsgate lorry park). Christie's, London, 13 December 1985, lot 46.


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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