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Subject
Religious.

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Utrecht, Catharijneconvent

Inv. ABM bi767

Ivory

Height: 116.5mm
Width: 61mm (each)
Depth: 7-12mm
Weight: 69g

Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child (Anna Selbdritt); Saint Anne teaching the Virgin how to read; saint Anne holding an open book.

Catalogus 1962; The Hague 1963 and Linden-Nijdam 1984: Northern Netherlands, c. 1530.
Koekkoek 1987: Lower Rhine (?), early 16th century (?).
Scholten 2004: Norther Netherlands, c. 1480-1500.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: crown of the Virgin.

Reverse
Pulp cavity visible. Curved. Some scoring.

Object Condition
Central hole in the torso of saint Anne.

Provenance
Given to the convent by A. Fievez from Malines (unknown date).

Bibliography
Catalogus Beeldhouwkunst in het Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Utrecht (Utrecht, 1962), no. 160.
Kunst uit kerkelijke Musea in Nederland in het Gemeentemuseum, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, 1963, no. 142.
B. van der Linden-Nijdam, 'Ivoorsnijkunst, één der oudste vormen van creativiteit', in Kunst en antiekrevue 10 (1984), pp. 9-16 (p. 14).
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), no. 17.
F. Scholten, 'Een Nederlandse ivoren pax uit de Late Middeleeuwen', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, vol. 52, no. 1 (2004), pp. 3-23 (pp. 13-14, fig. 14).


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