Knight in armour riding on a lion; flanked by soldiers holding bow and arrow; archers.
Westwood 1876: Germany, 14th century.
Sprinz 1925: Southern Germany, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Mistakenly (?) said to have been in the Berlin Kunstkammer in 1876 by Westwood. Collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen (Inv. 5171). Robert von Hirsch collection: sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 271.
Bibliography
F. A. von Lehner, Fürstlich Hohenzollern'sches Museum zu Sigmaringen. Verzeichniss der Schnitzwerke, 5 vols (Sigmaringen, 1871-1874), no. 256.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 821 ('73.308).
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollernschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), no. 16, fig. 9.
Verzeichnis der im Städelschen Kunstinstitut ausgestellten Sigmaringer Sammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, 1928, no. 255.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 247.
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