LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ivory, on a later ebonised wood base

Size Notes:

ivory; base: 4.5cm

Description:

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Markings:

the underside with three old paper labels respectively inscribed in pencil: 1587 ink: 357 and stamped: 139056

Literature:

Mentmore, London, 1884, vol. II, p. 76, no. 15

Provenance:

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, by 1884; by descent to Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery and 2nd Earl of Midlothian, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire; his sale, Sotheby's, Mentmore, 18 May 1977, lot 1869; Sotheby's London, 22 April 1986, lot 202; on loan to Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, September 2009 to December 2012