Three soldiers (from a Flagellation scene).
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French style, 19th century (in 14th-century style c. 1360).
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy on the eyes and mouths.
Reverse
Flat. Some scoring.
Object Condition
Damaged soldier on the right, missing pieces of his nose, hair and base.
Provenance
S. W. Jitta collection, Amsterdam; bought in 1898 from art dealer J. Boas Berg, Amsterdam.
Bibliography
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), p. 25.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 49-62 (p. 61, n. 2).
O. Pelka, Elfenbein (Berlin, 1920), p. 206.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 43.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 308.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. fig. 1).
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), no. 915.
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