
Collection Online as of January 25, 2021
Walrus ivory
Gift of Thomas P. Miller in memory of James J. Rorimer 1975.258
106C Medieval Treasury
This exceedingly rare medieval carving, which recalls the more monumental carvings on Viking ship prows, may have been a finial for a diagonal member of a folding chair. The character of the head, the stylized acanthus leaves, and the foliage-spouting mask on the neck are characteristic of north European and Anglo-Norman Romanesque styles.