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Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Old Testament.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 37mm
Width: 121 mm

Sybils. Samian sybil holding a cradle; Cimmerian sybil holding a cornucopia; European sybil holding a sword; Persian sybil holding a lantern; Agrippine sybil holding a whip; Tiburtine sybil holding a severed hand; scrolls with inscriptions (their names).
Crosshatched background; roped border; twisted columns.

Scholten 2004: Northern Netherlands, c. 1480-1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 17 July 1980, lot 210. Sotheby's, New York, 10 December 1992, lot 38.

Bibliography
F. Scholten, 'Een Nederlandse ivoren pax uit de Late Middeleeuwen', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, vol. 52, no. 1 (2004), pp. 3-23 (pp. 15-16, fig. 17).

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