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Handle of hair parter (gravoir) or knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Handle of hair parter (gravoir) or knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)
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Subject
Secular.

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Liège, Le Grand Curtius

I/7476 unlocated

Ivory

Height: 90mm

Youth with a hawk on his wrist.

KIK/IRPA database (accessed in 2013): 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Deep vertical crack.

Provenance
Acquired from a private collection.

Bibliography
E. Théodore, 'A propos de deux manches de couteau en os sculpté du 13e siècle représentant des fauconniers', in Bulletin de la Commission Départementale des Monuments Historiques du Pas-de-Calais, V, 1ere livraison (1932), pp. 183-191 (p. 191).
M. Bencard, ‘Om et middelalderligt knivskaft fra Ribe’, in Fra Ribe Amt (1975), pp. 36-61, no. 14.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed March 2013].


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