Knight on horseback with a hawk on his wrist.
Museum's opinion 2011: Netherlands, c. 1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: left hind leg of the horse.
Right hind leg of the horse cracked.
Provenance
Ellin Mitchell collection. Sotheby's, London, 18 March 1976, lot 16. Sotheby's, London: acquired thanks to the Pfeiffer Fund in 1984.
Bibliography
H. and S. Wichmann, Chess: the Story of Chesspieces from Antiquity to Modern Times (New York, 1964), no. 84.
Mirror of the Medieval World, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, no. 289, p. 228.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 248.
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