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Subject
Secular.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 141 C

Ivory

Height: 121mm
Width: 65mm
Depth: 20mm

Battle; men fighting on horseback; soldiers in armour; sword; crouching hybrid; hooded heads; trees.

Westwood 1876: France, 15th century.
Chiesi 2011: Italian, 1360-1380 or 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Carrand collection (by 1858): bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 509 ('58.244).
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), no. 141, pp. 242-243.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011).


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