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Cylindrical pyxis, arches (pyxide; frise d'arcature; colonnettes)

Cylindrical pyxis, arches (pyxide; frise d'arcature; colonnettes)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory;silver (fittings)

Height: 198mm

Nativity; Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; Annunciation; Visitation; Adoration of the Magi; standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse; angel crowning the Virgin; standing angels holding candlesticks; Miracle of the sower; Flight into Egypt.
Lid: bands of rosettes.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Painted (?) green trefoils in the spandrels.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Sothebys, London, 12 December 1996. Private collection, London: bought from Sam Fogg, 6 July 2006.

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