Gothic Ivories Project | Unfinished knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Unfinished knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Unfinished knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Links

Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
www.historiska.se

To purchase an image
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Stockholm, Historiska museet (The Swedish History Museum)

Inv. 7764:174

Bone

Height: 86 mm

Standing lady with hands in prayer.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
This piece seems unfinished.

Provenance
Found during archaeological excavations at the castle of Falkenbergshus, Halland, in 1885; acquired by the museum in 1885.

Bibliography
G. Gustafson and H. Hildebrand, ‘Falkenbergs hus’ in Månadsblad. Kongliga Vitterhets Historie och Antiqvitets Akademien Bulletin (1885), pp. 203-204.

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