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Box (boite) (Body, back)

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Front

Body, front

Bottom

Lid

End, right

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 3644

Bone;metal (fittings);silk (interior lining);wood (core);ivory

Height: 107 mm
Width: 214 mm
Depth: 120 mm

Lid
Four unidentified saints or apostles.
Body, front
Unidentified saint holding an attribute. Saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm. Unidentified saint with tower and martyr's palm. Saint Veronica holding a cloth with the Holy Face of Christ (Sancta Facies)(Veronica's veil). Unidentified saint holding an attribute. Unidentified saint holding an attribute and a martyr's palm.
End, right
Unidentified saints holding attributes. Saint Veronica holding a cloth with the Holy Face of Christ (Sancta Facies)(Veronica's veil).
Body, back
Six unidentified saints holding attributes, including martyr's palms and pyxes or ointment pots.
End, left
Unidentified saints holding attributes. Saint Veronica holding a cloth with the Holy Face of Christ (Sancta Facies)(Veronica's veil).
Foliated border. Foliated decoration. Scored background.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Flemish (?), 16th century; lid and assemblage: 18th-19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
The silk cloth inside is worn.

Comments
Kryzhanovskaya argues that this is an 18th- or 19th-century assemblage of 16th-century panels, possibly Flemish (Kryzhanovskaya 2014).

Provenance
Collection of Stepan Nikolaevich Mitusov (b. 1847; d. 1922?), Saint Petersburg: his sale,1897, lot 7 (Katalog kollektsii predmetov iz slonovoi kosti S. N. Mitusova (saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 7). Collection of the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh); transferred to the Hermitage in 1933.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 143.

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