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Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet

Inv. 10365

Ivory

Height: 233mm

Saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river.


Koechlin Number: 0717quater

Koechlin 1924: French, end of 14th century.
Liebgott 1985: French, end of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: French, end of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding an polychromy: gold (hair; cloak), red (Christopher's mouth and robe).

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back. The back of the 'base' is flat and with scoring.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of Christ's body.

Provenance
Registered in the inventories of Det kgl. Kunstkammer (the Royal Danish Kunstkammer, 1650-1825) of 1674, 1690, 1689; after the Kunstkammer was dissolved the piece appears in the inventory of det kgl. Kunstmuseum (the Royal Danish Art Museum, 1825-1867) of 1825, in the inventory of Museet for Nordiske Oldsager (Museum of Northern Antiquities, 1819-1892) of 1848.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 258; II, no. 717quater, pl. CXVII.
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), p. 71, fig. 66.
B. Gundestrup, Det Kongelige danske Kunstkammer 1737 (Esbjerg, 1991), vol. II, p. 185.


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