Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette or knife handle (manche de couteau) (?) (Front)

Statuette or knife handle (manche de couteau) (?) (Front)

Statuette or knife handle (manche de couteau) (?) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Religious.

Repository Institution
natmus.dk

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Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet

Inv. D3546

Ivory

Height: 80mm

Unidentified female figure (possibly the Virgin).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Very damaged, especially at the front. The face and front part of the body seem to have been intentionally cut (?).

Provenance
Found alongside Inv. D3545 (a Romanesque crucifix) whilst cleaning the floor of the chancel of Eliby Church, in Funen in 1897; sent to the Museum by count Gyldensten's estate office.

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