Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: red, black and gold.
Painted inscription along the volute, on both sides: 'Maria Mater gratiae, Mater misericordiae, Tu nos ab hoste protege et hora mortis suscipe. Gloria tibi Domine qui natus est de Virgine, cum Patre et Sancto Spirito in sempiterna saecula. Amen'.

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Restorations made by J. Baudoin (inscription on the underside: 'Réparé par Baudoin, r 3 66 Vavin').

Comments
This crozier is made of 15 cylinders of ivory attached around a wooden core and screwed to each other.

Provenance
Abbey of Pomposa, near Ravenna (according to A. Darcel (Paris, 1865)) or Abbey of San Benedetto Maggiore, Ferrara (according to V. Gay) from 1553, when the Benedictine community of Pomposa moved to Ferrara. Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, from 1865; acquired by the Museum in 1885.

Bibliography
A. Darcel, 'Le Musée rétrospectif', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1865), II, p. 297.
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 321.
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 109.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 409.
V. Gay, Glossaire archéologique du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, I (Paris, 1887-1928), p. 507 (with engraving).
N. Kondakov, Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Ukazatel' otdeleniia srednikh vekov i epokhi vozrozhdeniia [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), no. 34, p. 54.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), p. 10.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 277.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 91.
Zapadnoevropeiskaia reznaia kost' IX-XIX vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha: katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], The State Hermitage Museum, 1973, no. 134.
Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia iz kollektsii A. P. Bazilevskogo, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], The State Hermitage Museum, 1986, no. 26.
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh: Putevoditel' (Saint Petersburg, 2000), p. 104.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (St Peterburg, 2014), no. 149.