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Comb (peigne double) (Side)

Comb (peigne double) (Side)
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Subject
Secular.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 63

Ivory

Height: 125 mm
Width: 158 mm
Depth: 7 mm

Side 1
Attack on the castle of Love (?); knights; ladies.
Side 2
Standing queen handing banners to two kneeling knights in armour; trees.

Leningrad 1985: Northern Italy, Embriachi workshop, 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: one thin tooth.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899); acquired by the Museum in 1885.

Bibliography
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Prikladnoe iskusstvo Italii v sobranii Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1985, no. 15, p. 30.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 524, in relation to no. 151.


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