Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (crowns; hair), red (patterns on the clothes; decorative patterns on the throne), blue (on the back).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Three large holes in the base of the piece to attach it to the volute of the crozier now missing.

Comments
This piece originally was the centre part of a crozier head.

Provenance
Classense collection, i.e. collection assembled by the Camaldolese monks of Sant'Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna, acquired mainly during the 18th century; with the suppression of religious orders in 1797, the possessions of Ravenna's important abbeys passed on to the Comune of Ravenna; in 1804, the Museo Classense Municipale was established, which would become in 1885 the Museo Nazionale di Ravenna.

Bibliography
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), no. 31.
La collezione degli oggetti in avorio e osso. Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini (Ravenna, 2004), pp. 38-39, 57 no. 31.