Game Piece with Samson Slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass, 1140???50
German
Elephant ivory, red stain; Overall: 2 1/2 x 1/2 in. (6.3 x 1.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
17.190.141
Theophilus, the twelfth-century Benedictine author of On Diverse Arts, included a chapter on how to redden ivory in his treatise.