Keywords: Italian - Comb with Lady Love and a Hunting Scene - Walters 7178.jpg 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 dagged edge brigandine and hose The second knight who is standing is helmetless and holds a spear and shield; the third also standing wears a cloth hood with a dagged edge On the reverse is a hunting scene with two men wearing hunting hats with turned-up brims In a setting defined by two stylized trees the first figure spears a boar emerging from a rocky landscape; the second figure spears a missing animal Traces of gilding and color remain The comb is broken nearly in half and all its smaller teeth are missing Several combs in a similar style exist ca 1400 early Renaissance ivory traces of gilding and polychromy cm 9 9 3 accession number 71 78 8196 Léon Gruel Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Africa and the Renaissance Art in Ivory Center for African Art New York 1988-1989 place of origin Milan Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Historic Combs Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |