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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire

AD 6150

Ivory

Height: 84-87mm
Width: 18-24mm
Depth: 9-11mm

Embracing couple; lady lifting her dress.

Genava 1987: Paris, c. 1300.
Piano 2007: Alsace or Rhineland, c. 1370-1400 (?) or modern (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Bought, Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1986, lot 10.

Bibliography
Conservateurs des Musées d'art et d'histoire, 'Acquisitions du Musée d'art et d'histoire en 1986', in Genava, n.s., XXXV (1987), pp. 207-277 (p. 251, fig. 96).
N. Piano, 'La Collection d'ivoires médiévaux du musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève', in Genava LV (2007), pp. 127-157 (pp. 156-157, no. 12).

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