Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Egbert 1929: Italy, end of 15th century.
Morey 1936: Northern Italy, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Object Condition
Scoring on the edges of the panel. Vertical crack down the middle.

Comments
Egbert (1929) suggests it was part of a tabernacle or a casket.

Provenance
First mentioned by De Rossi between 1878 and 1894 (see G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 18r, no. 60).

Bibliography
G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 18r, no. 60.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), II, no. 46, pl. X.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 198].
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 88, no. 113, pl. XXX.

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