Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle or gravoir (hair parter) (Front)

Lady with a hawk on her wrist; lady wearing a chaplet pierced with small holes; dog.

Stafski 1965: German, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Comte, Gaborit-Chopin 1987: late 13th century or early 14th century.
Innsbruck 1995: German, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: lower part of the figure to the left. Hollow.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1856.

Bibliography
A. von Essenwein, 'Mittelalterlicher Hausrat und das Leben im deutschen Hause', in Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit (1883), pp. 320-321.
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 62.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 640.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), p. 238, no. 214.
F. Comte, D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Un gravoir médiéval au faubourg de l'Evière d'Angers (Maine et Loire), in Revue archéologique de l'Ouest, 4 (1987), pp. 149-152 (p. 151), fig. 4.
Eines Fürsten Traum. Meinhard II. Das Werden Tirols, dir. by J. Riedmann, exhibition catalogue, Innsbruck, Schloß Tirol and Stift Stams, 1995, no. 6.41, p. 205.

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