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

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Detail)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Detail)

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Subject
Secular.

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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. R 40

Ivory;steel;silver

Height: 320 mm

Winged griffin.
Foliated capital.

Museum's opinion 2013: Italy, 15th-16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.

Bibliography
Die Sammlung Clemens, ed. by B. Klesse, H.-U. Haedeke and H. Griese, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1963, no. 730, p. 133.

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