Gothic Ivories Project | Head of crozier (crosse) (Side 1)

Head of crozier (crosse) (Side 1)

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Subject
Religious.

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Ivory

Height: 147mm

Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a bird; two standing angels holding candlesticks; Christ holding a fruit; crown.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Foliated decoration.

Koechlin Number: 0756

Paris 1900: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy (in 1924).

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: candles held by the angels.

Provenance
Collection of Sigismond Bardac, Paris (before 1924).

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue Officiel illustré de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 71.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 271, 274; II, no. 756.

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