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Comb (fragment; peigne double) (Side 1)

Comb (fragment; peigne double) (Side 1)
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Side 2

Subject
Secular.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.244

Ivory

Height: 39mm
Width: 98mm
Depth: 9mm

Side 1: standing ladies; trees; church.
Side 2: two knights kneeling before a seated queen holding their helms; man holding a banner; trees.

Egbert 1929: Italy.
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy on the background and on clothes.

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: two rows of teeth and about one third of the centre panel.

Comments
Randall (1985) believes that this comb bears the story of Frau Minne and the Knights.

Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 180, 183, 190 and fig. 29.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 232.


Image

Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

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