Inv. F 229
Lion devouring another animal (?).
Enamelled decoration in quatrefoils: unidentified seated male saints holding books.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Italian, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Enamel damaged. Inlay missing.
Deep vertical crack on one side.
Comments
Maker's mark on the blade in the shape of a flower and a crescent moon.
Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, acquired c. 1867; in the Hermitage since 1885.
Bibliography
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 2169.
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 248.
N. Kondakov, Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Ukazatel' otdeleniia srednikh vekov i epokhi vozrozhdeniia [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), no. 161.
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Kratkii spravochnik s planom i 19 tablitsami (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1934), I, p. 46.
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh, Prikladnoe iskusstvo Italii v sobranii Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1985, no. 9.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 159.
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