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Hair parter (gravoir) (Side)

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Side

Front

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Subject
Secular.

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Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum

Inv. 1889,284

Ivory

Height: 218mm
Width: 20mm
Depth: 13mm

Hybrid figure holding a knife.
Foliated capital.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (?), 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: black (pupils, hair).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Bode, Berlin; acquired by the Museum on 11 October 1889.

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