Game-piece

Description

An ivory game-piece, probably a draughtsman, showing a seated man and woman with a game board on their knees playing a game. Behind them stand a couple holding hands with another couple nearby.

Object data

Accession number

CG 014

Date made

12th century AD

Materials

Ivory; Walrus Ivory

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Provenance

File of material relating to gamepiece or draughtsman. Manuscript notes (date unspecified) state that gamepieces were made throughout medieval times and some workshops specialised in scenes of combat between men and animals, and that some German workshops mass-produced simple versions; photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); photocopy of extract from publication entitled '50 Treasures from the Hunt Collection' (Limerick: Hunt Museum Executive, 1993) by Patrick Doran which describes the gamepiece; photocopy of extract from publication by John Beckwith, 'Ivory Carvings in Early Medieval England,' (London: Harvey, Miller and Medcalf, 1972) which describes object.

Place of collection

Technique

Copyright Attribution

Game-piece | Ivory ,Walrus Ivory | 12th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

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