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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)
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Subject
Secular.

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S'-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh Castle

Inv. 395

Bone

Height: 90mm
Width: 20mm
Depth: 10mm

Standing lady holding a dog.

Van Luttervelt 1948: West Germany, 3rd quarter of the 13th century.
Utrecht 1987: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
s'-Heerenberg 2008: France (Paris), 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the base at the front.

Comments
This figure seems to have an animal on her shoulder.

Provenance
Purchased by Jan Herman van Heek for the museum from Dr. Koch, Münster, before 1948.

Bibliography
R. van Luttervelt, Inventarislijst van de varzameling schilderijen, beeldouwwerken, handschriften en andere kunstvoorwerpen, op Huis Bergh, s'-Herenberg, opgemaakt door Dr. R. van Luttevelt, October - November 1948, (typescript, copy held in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum library), p. 118.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 32.
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. p. 48).


Image

© Collection Dr. J.H. van Heek, Huis Bergh Castle, s'-Heerenberg.

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