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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side)
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Side

Subject
Secular.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 232

Steel;silver;enamel;ivory

Height: 438 mm

Lion.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Italian, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Deep cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, acquired c. 1874; acquired by the Museum in 1885.

Bibliography
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 688.
N. Kondakov, Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Ukazatel' otdeleniia srednikh vekov i epokhi vozrozhdeniia [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), p. 161.
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Kratkii spravochnik s planom i 19 tablitsami (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1934), I, p. 46.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Nekotorye aspekty sobiratel'stva i issledovaniia pamiatnikov prikladnogo iskusstva srednevekov'ia v XIX v., in Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1977), Vol. 18, p. 10.
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 29.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 160.


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