Prague, Chapter of the diocese of Hradec Králové (deposited at the Saint-George Museum)
Side 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Side 2: Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century (metalwork volute: Italy, 15th century).
"Paris 1981: Paris, 2nd quarter of the 14th century (metalwork volute: late 14th century; lower part and gemstones added later). "
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Volute inscribed "XPS vincit XPS Reganat XPS imperat."
Provenance
From Rajhad (Raigern) (Moravia), Treasury of the Abbey.
Bibliography
A. L. von Wolfskron, 'Der Bischofsstab, dessen liturgisch - symbolische Bedeutung und allmähliche Entwicklung seiner Gestalt', Mitteilungen der K.K. Central-Commission (1857), II, p. 256, VII, pl. x, p. 259, XVIII, p. 209.
K. Lind, Über den Krummstab (Vienna, 1873), no. 8.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 467.
Christliche Ausstellung des Mährischen Gewerbe-Museums, exhibition catalogue, Brno, 1884, no. 36.
Ceské umeni gotické 1450-1420 (Prague, 1910), no. 4388.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 34, 272, 274, 276; II, no. 774; III, pl. CXXVIII.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 150.
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