Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth.

Object Condition
Blade attached by two rivets through the handle. Handle made from a single piece of ivory, with a slit for the top of the blade.
Degradation of the ivory, caused by rust, has led to a break along its length, in the thinnest part (around the archer's shoulders).
Blade rusted.
Surface worn, with oxidised areas and cracks around the rivets.

Comments
The top of the blade bears a mark in the shape of an elongated five-lobed palmette.

Provenance
Collection of Guy Ladrière, Paris; his gift to the Museum in 1987.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des objets d'art, 1985-1989 (Paris, 1990), no. 26, fig.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Les tablettes à écrire d'ivoire au Moyen Âge', in Métiers d'art 54-55, (December 1994-March 1995), pp. 17-20 (p. 20, with fig.).
E. Sears, 'Ivory and ivory Workers in Medieval Paris', pp. 19-37 in Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, fig. II-2.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 211.