Gothic Ivories Project | Falcon-hood stand (Front)

Falcon-hood stand (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Unidentified coat of arms (with a bear?).
Inscription: 'NUNC AUT QUONDAM'.

Koechlin Number: 1251

Koechlin 1924: French, beginning of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: beak.
Broken around the edges.

Comments
The original hood has survived.

Provenance
Figdor collection, Vienna.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 461; II, no. 1251; III, pl. CCV.

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