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Sword handle or dagger handle (?) (Side)
Sword handle or dagger handle (?) (Side)
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Secular.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 143 C

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 25mm

Naked man riding a lion and brandishing a club; trees.Bearded man on horseback fighting a lion; sword.Monsters (dragons).

Chiesi 2011: France or Italy, 1360-1380.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in both sides.

Object Condition
Vertical crack.

Provenance
Collection of François Roussel, Paris (in 1866). Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 243, no. 143.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), p. 534.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 226.


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