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Pommel (fragment of a saddle) or fragment of a back rest (Front)
Pommel (fragment of a saddle) or fragment of a back rest (Front)
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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. B 7

Ivory

Height: 60mm
Width: 315mm

Foliated vine scrolls; putto; birds eating grapes.

Museum's opinion 2013: Italian (?), end of the 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
With horizontal scoring.

Object Condition
Missing: left side.
Three holes along the right edge. One central hole in the upper edge.

Provenance
Collection of Ferdinand Franz Wallraf; transferred from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum to the Kunstgewerbemusum in 1888.

Bibliography
B. Tietzel-Hellerforth and C. W. Schüman, 'Italienische Kunst des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts', in Weltkunst 5 (1976), p. 319, fig. 321.
Lust und Verlust. Kölner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preußenadler, dir. by H. Kier, G. Zehnder, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, 1995, no. 360, p. 659.


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