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Knife handle or fragment of hair parter (gravoir) (Front)
Knife handle or fragment of hair parter (gravoir) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Secular.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 110mm

Standing female figure (possibly the Virgin).

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, end of the 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 12 March 1956, lot 100. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964). Sotheby's, 13 December 1979, lot 22. Blumka Gallery and Julius Böhler (Collecting Treasures of the Past. The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-11 February 2000, no. 10).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.47.


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