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Chess piece (Side)

Chess piece (Side)
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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 3403

Ivory

Height: 60 mm
Width: 33 mm
Depth: 19 mm

Seated king; sceptre in the shape of a stem of flower; crown.
Throne with foliated decoration (interlace) and a row of blind arches.

Lapkovskaia 1973: France, 13th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Norway (?), 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: upper right corner of the back of the throne. The upper left corner seems to have been repaired.
Crown chipped. Discolouration.

Provenance
Transferred from the Gosudarstvennii Muzeinii Fond (GMF - State Museum Collection) to the Hermitage in 1941.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Puteshestvie v proshloe po zalam Ermitazha. Iskusstvo zapadnogo srednevekov'ia [Journey into the Past in the Hermitage Rooms. Medieval Art in Western Europe] (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1963), p. 67.
Zapadnoevropeiskaia reznaia kost' IX-XIX vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha: katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], The State Hermitage Museum, 1973, no. 167.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 58.


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