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Knife handle or hair parter handle (manche de couteau; gravoir) (Front)

Knife handle or hair parter handle (manche de couteau; gravoir) (Front)
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Front

Front

Back

Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Schwerin, Staatliches Museum Schwerin

MK 32

Stag horn

Height: 85mm

Youth with a hawk on his wrist; youth feeding a hawk.

Hegner 1983 and Schloss Güstrow 1995 (K. Hegner): West Germany (?), end of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Diagonal cracks.

Provenance
Acquired in 1837.

Bibliography
Jahresbericht des Vereins für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde aus den Arbeiten des Bereins, dir. by A. Bartsch, III (Schwerin, 1838), pp. 93-94. Accessible online via the site of the Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin: http://dfg-viewer.de/v1/?set[image]=353&set[zoom]=min&set[debug]=0&set[double]=0&set[mets]=http%3A%2F%2Fmvdok.lbmv.de%2Ffile%2Fmvdok_derivate_00003853%2Fmeckljb_b003.mets.xml [accessed December 2012].
A. von Essenwein, in Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit 30 (1883), p. 320, with ill.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), in relation to no. 640.
K. Hegner, Katalog Mittelalterliche Kunst II. Kleinkunst. Kunsthandwerk, Staatliches Museum Schwerin (Schwerin, 1983), no. 207, fig. 47.
1000 Jahre Mecklenburg. Geschichte und Kunst einer europäischen Region, ed. by J. Erichsen, exhibition catalogue, Güstrow, Schloss Güstrow, 23 June-15 October 1995, no. 2.29 (K. Hegner).


Image

© Staatliches Museum Schwerin. Photograph Gabriele Bröcker.

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