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Dagger handle (manche de poignard) (Side 2)

Dagger handle (manche de poignard) (Side 2)
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Side 1

Subject
Secular.

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Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Inv. 1921.153

Enamel;metal (blade);walrus ivory

Height: 283 mm (total)

Four busts.
Side 1: a lozenge enclosing the face of a youth in a quatrefoil.
Side 2: a lozenge enclosing the face of a youth in a quatrefoil.
Pattern made of drilled holes.

Rohde 1921-1922: Northern Germany, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: German, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: parts of the heads. Handle chipped on one side.
Blade very corroded.

Provenance
Said to have been found in a marshland near Bremen. Purchased on the art market by the Museum sometime before 1921.

Bibliography
A. Rohde, 'Ein Dolchmesser des 14. Jahrhunderts im Hamburgischen Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe', in Zeitschrift für historische Waffen- und Kostümkunde 9 (1921-1922), pp. 155-156 (p. 155, fig. 1). Fully accessible online at: http://archive.org/stream/ZeitschriftFuerHistorischeWaffenkunde09#page/n193/mode/1up
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, pp. 409-410, in relation to no. 1142bis.
T. Müller, 'Ein früher gotischer Prunkdolch', in Pantheon 33 (1975), pp. 203-207, fig. 8.
B. Heitmann, C. Boerner, Historische Bestecke: aus der Sammlung des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Hamburg, 2007), no. 8, p. 180.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 224.


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