About the Artwork
Comb
late 15th century
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French
French
Boxwood
Overall: 5 × 7 1/8 × 3/8 inches (12.7 × 18.1 × 1 cm)
Costume Accessories
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
47.96
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in Gothic letters: de bon [heart] | te [or je] done
Provenance
Henry Chauncey (New York, New York, USA)
(Charles L. Morley, New York, New York, USA)
Lillian Henkel Haass
1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Calkins, R. A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Centuries. Exh. cat., Andrew Dickinson White Museum of Art, Cornell University. Ithaca, 1968, no. 85, pp. 160-161 (ill.).
Songs of Glory: Medieval Art from 900-1500. Exh. cat., Oklahoma Museum of Art. Oklahoma City, 1985, no. 170, p. 396-397 (ill.).
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French, Comb, late 15th century, boxwood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 47.96.
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