Gothic Ivories Project | Rosary pendant, 3 faces (chapelet) (Side)

Rosary pendant, 3 faces (chapelet) (Side)

Rosary pendant, 3 faces (chapelet) (Side)

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Subject
Religious. Lives of Saints. Infancy of Christ.

Repository Institution
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

14.25.1250

Ivory

Height: 64mm
Width: 42mm
Depth: 38mm

Face 1: Virgin and Child; naked Child.
Face 2: Saint Catherine with wheel and sword.
Face 3: Saint Barbara with a book and tower.
Foliated decoration.

Museum's opinion 2012: France (?), 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Broken: part of Saint Catherine's wheel and sword. Cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris. Collection of Jean-Baptiste Carrand, Lyon. Collection of William H. Riggs, Paris: gift of William H. Riggs, 1913.

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