Height: 1960mm (with staff); 560mm (volute only).
Width: 310mm (volute)
Depth: 80mm (volute)
Coronation of the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Along the outside of the volute: twelve apostles coming out of palmette-like leaves; double-sided God the Father making a blessing gesture.
Around the base of the volute: three unidentified standing saints; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel, sword and martyr's palm.
Foliated decoration; dragon head.
Painted inscription: 'MARIA DEL CIEL RAINA MADRE DEL NOSTRO SIGNORE SPERANCA DI PECHATORI TVTI I CIELI AVVI SE INCHINA'.
Museum's opinion 2011: Venice, end of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy; red, blue, black, gold.Painted inscription: 'MARIA DEL CIEL RAINA MADRE DEL NOSTRO SIGNORE SPERANCA DI PECHATORI TVTI I CIELI AVVI SE INCHINA'.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Comments
This crozier is made of numerous separate pieces.
Provenance
Collection of Marchese Tomaso degli Obizzi (d. 1805), Catajo; Collection of the Archdukes of Autria-Este; given to the Kunshistorisches Museum.
Bibliography
Katalog der Sammlung für Plastik und Kunstgewerbe (Vienna, 1964), I. Mittelalter, no. 120.
M. Tomasi, 'Contributi allo studio della scultura eburnea trecentesca in Italia', in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, IV serie, IV-1, 1999 [2001], pp. 241-246 (p. 236).
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