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Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum

Inv. F 995

Ivory

Height: 294mm
Width: 24mm
Depth: 13mm

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); couple embracing; lady with plaited hair.
Foliated capital.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (?), 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (belt of the youth).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks.

Comments
Drilled holes in the place of pupils, nostrils and corners of the mouth.

Provenance
Collection of M. Soyter, Augsburg; Collection of Albert Figdor, Vienna; bought by the Museum on 15 August 1935.

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