Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. K 160

Bone

Height: 85 mm

Standing female figure; lady holding a dog.

Museum's opinion 2013: possibly Cologne, c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the front of the figure. Deep vertical crack.

Comments
This piece is hollow.

Provenance
According to the inventory, found in Cologne. Private collection, Cologne: given to the museum in 1897.

Image

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