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Knife handle (fragment) (Front)

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Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 2889

Bone

Height: 80mm
Width: 23mm
Depth: 10mm

Monk holding a cross.

Koechlin Number: 1129

Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 15th or 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: face of the figure and upper part of its torso; lower part at the back.

Provenance
Found in Paris. Given by Arthur Forgeais in 1859.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1112.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 1129.

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