Comb with Lady Love and a Hunting Scene

ca. 1400 (early Renaissance)

9.3 cm 9 cm

Citation Source image

The comb is carved on either side in two sunken panels between the teeth; about three-quarters of each scene is preserved. On one side Lady Love sits enthroned, presenting mantled helms to kneeling knights. The knight on her right wears a steel cap and coif, a jupon with a dag...

Artifact

id
id
8196
contentType
contentType
object
stage
stage
normalized
provenance
provenance
Collection of Victor Martin Le Roy (1842-1918), Neuilly-sur-Seine. Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris, ca. 1924 (?); purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
rightsUri
rightsUri
CC0
language
language
en
pageCount
pageCount
3
source
source
import
Source image fields (5)
thumbnailUrl https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.78_Fnt_BW.jpg
largeImageUrl https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.78_Fnt_BW.jpg
iiifBase https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.78_Fnt_BW.jpg
imageCount 3
sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.78