Comb with Warriors and Eagles

Description This comb and Walters 71.459 are designed on the same pattern: a single row of teeth surmounted by a bilaterally symmetrical row of carved figures. On both, warriors and lions flank opposed heads of eagles, which support a heraldic crown. In this comb, the lion, unicorn and inscriptions seen in Walters 71.459 are replaced by rondels cut into the surface; these may have been intended to hold additional ornamentation.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/11/1962	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Hair. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York. 1980.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters