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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Engraving)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Engraving)

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Lamb (?).
Inscription: 'MCCCLXXII' (1372) and letter 'a' in Gothic script.
Foliated capital.

Beard 1938: ivory handle dated 1372. Rest: 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Maker's mark on the blade.

Bibliography
A. Essenwein, 'Mittelalterlicher Hausrath und das Leben im deutschen Hause', in Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums (1883), pt II, no. II.
C. R. Beard, 'Gravoirs and Knife-Hafts; a 19th-Century Fake Exposed', in Connoisseur 101 (1938), pp. 171-175, no. II.

Image

Out of copyright: from C. R. Beard, 'Gravoirs and Knife-Hafts: a 19th-Century Fake Exposed', in Connoisseur 101 (1938).

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