Gothic Ivories Project | Cylindrical pyxis, with arches (pyxide; frise d'arcatures) (Side)

Cylindrical pyxis, with arches (pyxide; frise d'arcatures) (Side)

Cylindrical pyxis, with arches (pyxide; frise d'arcatures) (Side)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Cherbourg-Octeville, Musée Thomas Henry

MTH 2009.0.33

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 71mm (diameter)

Unidentified female saints (?): Female figure holding a candle; female figure holding a flower; female figure holding a dish with the side wound of Christ (?); female figure holding a cot; female figure holding a horn; female figure holding a sword (point upwards).
Foliated decoration in the spandrels. Crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2010: 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
From the Voeu abbey (Abbaye du Voeu) in Cherbourg-Octeville, this abbey was founded in 1145 and dissolved by royal decree in 1774; transferred to the Museum before 1960.

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