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Head of crozier (crosse) (Side 1)

Head of crozier (crosse) (Side 1)
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Side 2

Side 1

Subject
Religious.

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Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

BK-NM-2306

Ivory

Height: 300mm; 215mm (volute only)
Width: 106mm

Side 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Side 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand.
Foliated decoration: vine leaf. Kneeling angel at the base of the volute.


Koechlin Number: 0767

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 2nd half of the 14th century


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Cracked. Missing: part of the kneeling angel's head; angel's arms. Green stains.

Provenance
Collection of H.P. Hermans-Smit, Eindhoven; bought by the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (1875); transferred to Amsterdam in 1883.

Bibliography
D. van der Kellen, Les Moyen-age et la Renaissance dans les Pays Bas: Choix d'objets remarquables du 12. au 17. siècle (Den Haag 1865-1878), pl. 8.
H.P. Berlage, Retrospectieve kunst op de internationale koloniale en uitvoerhandeltentoonstelling (Amsterdam, 1886), p. 26.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), p. 8, no. 22.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 271, 273-275, II, no. 767, III, pl. CXXVI.
M.E. Houtzager, De Madoona in de kunst (Utrecht, 1954), no. 123.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), no. 769.
Een hogere werkelijkheid, Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, ed. by F. Scholten and G. de Werd, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Museum Kurhaus Kleef, 2004, pp. 142-3, no. 53.
K. Koselleck, 'Een uralter elfenbeinerner Krummstab ohne einen besonderen Wert', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 56 (2008), pp. 408-423.


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