Inv. 144 C
Seated male and female musicians (portable organ; psaltery?; string instrument; shawm); dagger; trees.
Foliated capital.
Chiesi 2011: Italy, 1360-1380.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: hands of one of the musicians and part of the shawm he was blowing into.
Vertical cracks.
An enamelled metal ring probably originally surrounded the base of the handle (see trace).
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), no. 144, p. 243.
L. Salvatici, Posate, pugnali, coltelli da caccia del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, 1999), p. 84, no. 86.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 535-536.
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