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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side 1)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Side 1)

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Subject
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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7282

Ivory;metal (blade)

Height: 375mm (total); 96mm (handle only)
Width: 30mm
Depth: 29mm

Side 1: Saint James the Greater with a staff and satchel.
Side 2: Saint Andrew with a saltire cross.
Top: head of a bishop.

Koechlin Number: 1145

Koechlin 1924: 15th century, Spanish?
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Zschille collection: sold, Paris, 5-9 September 1900, lot 5. Félix Doistau collection, Paris; gift of Félix Doistau to the Museum in 1919.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 417; II, no. 1145.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 298.

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