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Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 3 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 3 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.


Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 92mm
Width: 155mm
Depth: 7mm

Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents.
Rosettes in the spandrels.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label: 465.

Object Condition
Lower border chipped on the reverse.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: sold, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 465 (purchased by Bing). Private collection, London: bought from Blumka, New York, 21 January 2002 (Blumka Gallery-Julius Böhler-Brimo de Laroussilhe, Collecting Treasures of the Past, New York, Blumka Gallery, January-February 2002, no. 42).


Image

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