Inv. F 2922
Saint Paul holding a sword and an open book (?).
Crosshatched background; columns with chevron pattern.
Kube 1925: Germany, mid 15th century.
Lapkovskaya 1973: Germany, 1st half of the 15th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Flandres, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost.
Object Condition
Curved. Very worn.
Pierced by three holes: one in the upper centre and two on either side towards the bottom.
Provenance
Collection of the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (no. 10123), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1925.
Bibliography
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 114.
Zapadnoevropeiskaia reznaia kost' IX-XIX vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha: katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], The State Hermitage Museum, 1973, no. 18.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 136.
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