Comb, probably given as a wedding gift. - Lot 299

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Comb, probably given as a wedding gift. - Lot 299
Comb, probably given as a wedding gift. It features a wolf haggling towards the right in a dynamic posture. Boxwood, patinated by use and age. Egypt, Coptic, Byzantine period, 400 to 700 A.D. (small restoration on the upper teeth made with a piece from another comb, on the lower part two teeth broken and glued) 15.5 x 7.2 cm Bibliography: l'Art Copte en Égypte, Gallimard, Paris, page 211, fig 255, for a comb of this type. Provenance: Former Parisian collection built up in the 1970/80s.
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