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Subject
Secular.

Private collection, London (in 2012)

S/n

Walrus ivory

Height: 112mm
Width: 73mm
Depth: 44mm

King on horseback; soldiers holding weapons including crossbows.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Kunstkammer of Princes zu Öttingen-Wallerstein, Harburg Castle (South Germany). Private collection, London (in 2012; bought from Rudigier, 22 June 2005).

Bibliography
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), pp. 724-5, fig. 1, in relation to no. 247.

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