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Relief, enclosed in a pendant (appliqué) (Back)
Relief, enclosed in a pendant (appliqué) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Waddesdon, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust)

Acc. 2918

Rock crystal (frame);silver (frame);ivory

Height: 45 mm (pendant only)
Width: 30 mm
Depth: 10 mm
Weight: 12 g

Saint Denis holding his head; bishop's mitre; saint Catherine of Alexandria broken wheel; martyr's palm; crown; angel; clouds.

Hodgkinson 1970: French (?), late 14th or early 15th century.
Institution's opinion 2015: French or German (?), late 14th or early 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with some scoring.

Provenance
Collection of Baron Anselm de Rothschild; by descent, collection of Baron Ferdinand or Miss Alice de Rothschild; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Waddesdon Manor, 1963.

Bibliography
F. Schestag, Katalog der Kunstsammlung des Freiherrn Anselm von Rothschild in Wien (Vienna, 1866 and 1872), no. 152.
T. Hodgkinson, Sculpture. The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (Fribourg, 1970), no. 60.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 155.


Image

Photo: Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor.

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