Side 1: Men shooting arrows at a naked man (possibly Martyrdom of saint Sebastian); dog; trees.
Side 2: Judgement of Solomon.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Italy, c. 1380.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Missing: one of the lower corners broken.
Provenance
Collection of Giuseppe Baslini, art dealer, Milan: sold, Baslini sale, Genolini Sambon, Milan, November 1888, lot 82. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).
Bibliography
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. Schnitzler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 31.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.126, p. 34.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 528-529, in relation to no. 152.
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