Gothic Ivories Project | Knife handle, seal handle or hair parter (gravoir) (Side 1)

Knife handle, seal handle or hair parter (gravoir) (Side 1)

Knife handle, seal handle or hair parter (gravoir) (Side 1)

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1857,1013.7 (Dalton 344)

Ivory

Height: 113mm
Width: 35mm
Depth: 16mm
Weight: 59.3g

Side 1
Unidentified saint with a bishop's mitre and crozier; blessing gesture.
Side 2
Saint Michael holding a sword and scales; throne with lion heads.

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right wing of saint Michael; lower part of the piece.

Provenance
Acquired in France. Collection of Conte della Gherardesca, Florence. Collection of M. Signol: bought from him by the museum in 1857.

Bibliography
La Revue Archéologique (1844), vol. 1, p. 332
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 344, pl. LXXVIII.

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