Comb with Secular Scenes

1490-1500 (Renaissance)

15 cm 11.2 cm

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The comb, which has floral terminals, has on one side a scene of a man and seated woman preparing to play "kick foot" in a tilt yard as spectators watch from behind the railing. On the reverse are two scenes. On the left, two nude boys, one with a bow and the other with a hand...

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Countess Petronio Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, June 24, 1921, lot 58; H. Wareham Harding, New York [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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