Gothic Ivories Project | Head of crozier (crosse) (Side 2)

Head of crozier (crosse) (Side 2)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Rome, Vatican, Musei Vaticani

Inv. 64667 (Morey A93)

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 96mm
Depth: 15mm (max)
Weight: 126.1g

Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a book in her right hand.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Foliated decoration: ivy leaf or vine leaf.

Koechlin Number: 0755

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Morey 1936: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in round.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: base of the volute and knop.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), II, no. 55, pl. XII, 1-2.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 272, 274; II, no. 755.
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 81, no. A93, pl. XXIII.

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