Inv. F 3643
Register 1: unidentified saint holding a martyr's palm and pincers (?) (possibly saint Appollonia).
Register 2: prophet (?) holding a blank scroll.
Register 3: saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); saint Peter holding a key.
Register 4: Saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm; unidentified male saint; hermit (possibly saint Anthony).
Crosshatched background.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: South Netherlands, 2nd half of 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: green (borders); gold (clothing, hair and beards, palm; haloes); red (clothing)
Reverse
Not visible due to the wooden case.
Object Condition
Minor chips and cracks towards the edges of each panel.
Provenance
Collection of Stepan Nikolaevich Mitusov (b. 1847; d. 1922?), Saint Petersburg: his sale, Saint Petersburg, 1897, lot 183. Donated to the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh) in 1929; acquired by the Hermitage in 1933.
Bibliography
Srednevekovoe prikladnoe iskusstvo Zapadnoi Evropy iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha v g. Sankt-Peterburge: kratkii katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Vyborg, Vyborg Historico-architectural and Fine Arts Museum, 1993, no. 85.
Rzemioslo artystyczne zachodniej Europy od XI do XVI wieku ze zborow panstwowego Ermitazu w Sankt-Petersburgu, exhibition catalogue, Malbork, The Malbork Castle Museum, 1994, no. 69.
"Fraiburskii" krest i ego mir. Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo Srednikh vekov v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, 2004, no. 76.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 139.
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