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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

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Stockholm, Historiska museet (The Swedish History Museum)

Inv. 1304:1833:17

Bone

Height: 80 mm

Standing figure with a hawk on his or her wrist; standing figure feeding a hawk.

Museum's opinion 2013: Southern Sweden, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head of the figure; lower part of the piece or blade.

Provenance
Found in Kalmar in 1833; collection of Dr. Otto Christian Ekmans (Kalmar); acquired by the Museum in 1846.

Bibliography
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 7.

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