Saint Andrew (?) with a cross and scroll; saint Paul holding a sword and scroll.
Foliated decoration in the spandrels.
Giusti 1999: Italy (Venice), beginning of the 15th century.
Attribution
Style of the Innes diptych (Giusti 1999).
Hinges
Traces of two missing ring hinges (?) on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 13 April 1978, lot 24: purchased by the Museum.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 349, n. 1.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies, 1929, pp. 169-206 (esp. pp. 175-182).
P. Giusti in Museo Civico Amedeo Lia: Sculture e oggetti d'arte (I cataloghi del Museo Civico Amedeo Lia), ed. by M. Ratti and A. Marmori (La Spezia, 1999), no. 2.31.
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