Gothic Ivories Project | Head of crozier (crosse) (Front)

Head of crozier (crosse) (Front)

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Religious.

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Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Inv. A 1

Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 120mm
Depth: 16mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ Child holding a fruit in his left hand; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Foliated decoration.

Koechlin Number: 0748

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century
Museum's opinion 2012: 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ's right hand. Several holes (possibly for metal mount now lost).
Cracked.

Provenance
Recorded in the acquisition book of the Kunstkabinett as having been given as a present by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. 1749, d. 1832) on 6 January 1820; the Kunstkabinett later merged with the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar to form the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

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