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Fragments of a comb (peigne double) (Panel 1)
Fragments of a comb (peigne double) (Panel 1)
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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 41 mm (each)
Width: 146 mm (each)

Panel 1
Return from the hunt; hunters on foot; dogs; dead hares; castle; trees. Men holding staffs and baskets (possibly gathering berries).
Panel 2
Hunter blowing a horn; dogs attacking a stag; hunter aiming with bow and arrow; dog attacking a lion; hunter blowing a horn.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: patterns on the background; hair.

Object Condition
Missing: all teeth.
Panel 1 broke into two pieces which have been put back together.

Comments
These pieces come from a single comb the centre part of which was sawn through its thickness.

Provenance
Collection of Julien Chappée (b. 1862, d. 1957), Le Mans. Drouot, Paris, 24 April 1994, lot 117. Les Enluminures, Paris, September 1998, lot 16. Blumka Gallery, Julius Böhler, Brimo de Laroussilhe, Collecting Treasures of the Past, New York, 22 January-8 February 2002, no. 48.


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