Double-Sided Ivory Liturgical Comb with Scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket

Date

ca. 1200–1210

Type

Comb

Medium

Elephant ivory

Department

Medieval Art

Culture

British

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1988.279

Credit

Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Schimmel Foundation Inc., Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, Lila Acheson Wallace, Nathaniel Spear Jr., Mrs. Katherine S. Rorimer, William Kelly Simpson, Alastair B. Martin and Anonymous Gifts, 1988