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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Hunting scene.

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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1928.837.

Bone

Height: 99mm
Width: 19.6mm
Depth: 13.2mm
Weight: 33.4g (with reconstructed plastic blade)

Youth with a hawk on his wrist.

Museum's opinion 2010: Swiss (Basel), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Found during excavations of the 'Hinterer Eptingerhof', Bäumleingasse 20, Basel, in 1928; given to the museum by Rudolf Flügel in 1928.

Bibliography
G. Keck, 'Eine figürliche Beinschnitzerei', in Bericht der Zürcher Denkmalpflege (1997/1998), p. 43.

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