Side 1: Dragon; foliated decoration.
Side 2: hybrid creature; dragon.
Dalton 1909: English, 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: English (London), 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Missing: half of the comb; teeth.
Provenance
Found during the construction of the Thames Embankment, London, 1865. Collection of Augustus Wollaston Franks (b. 1826, d. 1897): donated by him to the British Museum in 1877.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 253.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 59.
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