Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle (Front)

Knife handle (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0701.1506

Ivory;iron (remains of a tang where the blade once was)

Height: 63mm
Width: 25mm

Saint Paul holding a sword.

Museum's opinion 2011: English (London), 14th or 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
The ivory has split in some places.
Very brown.

Provenance
Found in London. Collection of Charles Roach Smith (b. 1807, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.

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