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Knife handle (Side)

Knife handle (Side)
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Subject
Secular.

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Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale

Inv. 339

Ivory;steel (blade);silver;enamel

Height: 360 mm

Lion devouring a dragon; foliated capital.

Boccia 1991: 2nd half of the 14th century.
Martini and Rizzardi 1993: Burgundy, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
The enameled silver is decorated with tracery, and traces of a man kneeling in front of a seated figure, a pilgrim, a male musician playing the harp to a lady, couple and a damaged figure. This piece probably comes from the same set as Inv. 338.

Provenance
Collection of Ferdinando Cospi (in 1677); Accademia di belle Arti (before 1878); Museo Civico di Bologna (by 1884).

Bibliography
L. Legati, Il Museo Cospiano (Bologna, 1677), p. 238.
Mentioned in Bologna, Archivio Storico dei Musei Civici d'Arte Antica (ASMCAA), Museo Civico, Inventari Storici, fascicolo 16 (Cataloghi Speciali dei Monumenti della R. Università 6° Armi moderne)[handwritten, s.d. but pre-1878].
Mentioned in Bologna, Archivio Storico dei Musei Civici d'Arte Antica (ASMCAA), Museo Civico, Inventari Storici, fascicolo 17 (1884), signed by Luigi Frati [handwritten].
P. Ducati, Guida del Museo Civico di Bologna (Bologna, 1923), p. 168.
L. G. Boccia, L'armeria del Museo Civico Medieval di Bologna (Busto Arsizio, 1991), pp. 143-145, no. 303.
Oggetti in avorio e osso nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1993), p. 47, fig. 1.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 223.


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