Joshua stopping the sun.
Knife with carved ivory handle and steel blade.
The handle is made of an openwork relief with three figures: a warrior on foot who is about to draw, a rider on a rearing horse and an enemy on the ground under the horse's hooves. The rider brandishes a sabre towards the sun, which makes it possible to recognize Joshua.
L.: 28,5 cm, handle : 8,5 cm
A knife with an almost identical decoration belongs to the collection of the Louvre Museum MRR 157. on deposit at the national museum of the Renaissance- castle of Ecouen. Former collection Pierre Révoil.
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