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Knife handle (Front)

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Secular.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 3404

Ivory

Height: 70mm
Width: 10mm

Standing female figure.

Koechlin Number: 1125

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Damaged by water.

Provenance
Found in the Seine in 1861; given in 1862 by Arthur Forgeais.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 8044.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 417, 418; II, no. 1125.

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