Gothic Ivories Project | Painted crozier (crosse) (Front)

Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); dragon.
Monster swallowing the base of the volute.
Painted decoration on the knop: Four Symbols of the Evangelists; eagle of saint John the Evangelist; lion of saint Mark; ox of saint Luke and angel of saint Matthew.
Painted inscription on the volute:
Front: 'ECE AGNUS DEI ECE QUI TOLIS PECHATA MUNDI M.'.
Back: 'AGNUS DEI QUI TOLIS PECHATA MONDI MISERERE NOBIS'.
Dragon; foliated scrolls (rinceaux).

Coletti 1935: Italian (Veneto), 13th century.
Cott 1939: Italian (Veneto), end of the 13th century.
Pazzi 1988: Italian (Veneto), 1st half of the 13th century.
Pegolo 1993-1994: Italian (Veneto), end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th century.
Delfini Filippi 1995: Italian (Veneto), end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold, red and black.
Painted decoration on the knop: Four Symbols of the Evangelists; eagle of saint John the Evangelist; lion of saint Mark; ox of saint Luke and angel of saint Matthew.
Painted inscription on the volute: Front: 'ECE AGNUS DEI ECE QUI TOLIS PECHATA MUNDI M.'.
Back: 'AGNUS DEI QUI TOLIS PECHATA MONDI MISERERE NOBIS'.
Dragon; foliated scrolls (rinceaux).

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: decorative elements along the volute (holes filled with stucco).
Traces of later repairs on the knop, the volute and the staff.
Restored in 1995 by C. Mattiello.

Comments
The shaft is possibly made of two distinct staffs taken from two different croziers (see Mattiello 1995).

Provenance
Considered to hail from the Treviso Cathedral treasury, possibly part of the donation made by bishop of Treviso Azzo de Maggi (1355-1357) in favour of the cathedral (see Coletti 1935, Pazzi 1988 and Pegolo 1993-1994).

Bibliography
L. Coletti, Catalogo delle cose d'arte e di antichità d'Italia: Treviso (Rome, 1935), p. 202.
P. B. Cott, Siculo-Arabic Ivories (Princeton, 1939), p. 59.
P. Pazzi, Il Tesoro della cattedrale di Treviso (Venice, 1988), p. 32.
B. Pegolo, Oreficeria sacra nel Museo Diocesano di Treviso dal XII al XVIII secolo (unpublished dissertation, Università di Udine, 1994), p. 97.
Restituzioni '95: opere restaurate, ed. by F. Rigon, exhibition catalogue, Vicenza, Palazzo Leoni Montanari, 16 September-31 October 1995, pp. 43-45 (G. Delfini Filippi and C. Mattiello).

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