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| Keywords: French - Comb with Secular Scenes - Walters 71266 - Reverse.jpg 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 cannon shoot at a sitting duck On the right a youth pulls off the stocking of a seated woman The scenes are set against a coarsely crosshatched ground The small and large teeth have all been replaced by sections inset into the frame between 1490 1500 Renaissance ivory cm 11 2 15 accession number 71 266 29026 Countess Petronio Collection date and mode of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 city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1921 Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces in Miniature The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Medieval Games of Love and War The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 Romance of the Rose Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2009 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Historic Combs Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
