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Relief (appliqué) (Front, detail)

Relief (appliqué) (Front, detail)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.


Toronto, Thomson Collection

S/n

Ivory

Height: 102 mm
Width: 70 mm

Saint George and the dragon; saint George on horseback; princess praying; rocks with castle; trees.

London 1962: France, c. 1400.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris) or German (Cologne), c. 1850.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: upper part including the castle.

Provenance
Morrison collection, Fonthill. Herman Baer, art dealer, London, in 1962. Toronto, Thomson collection, in 2014.

Bibliography
Third International Art Treasures Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 March-29 April 1962, no. 640, pl. 324 (possibly mirror image).
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by P. Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 294, no. 6 (in relation to no. 86).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 33.


Image

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