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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1986,0604.1

Ivory or staghorn

Height: 27mm
Width: 100mm
Depth: 6.5mm
Weight: 15.2g

Sleeping soldier (from a Resurrection scene or the three Holy Women at the tomb).

London 1987 and Museum's opinion 2011: English, c. 1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat. Deep crosshatching.

Object Condition
Fragment. Heavily discoloured. Features worn.

Provenance
Found at Custom House Quay, London. British Museum, 1986, purchased through Sotheby's, London.

Bibliography
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander and Paul Binski, exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1987, p. 111, fig. 75.


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