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Relief (appliqué) (Side)

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Naples, Museo di Capodimonte

Inv. DC 776

Ivory

Height: 65mm
Width: 22mm

Standing figure holding a scroll (archangel Gabriel?; possibly part of an Annunciation scene).

Naples 1981: Paris, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), early 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat.

Provenance
Collection of Mario de Ciccio (d. 1957): given to the Museum in 1957.

Bibliography
Medioevo e produzione artistica di serie. Smalti di Limoges e avori gotici in Campania, ed. by P. Giusti, P. Leone de Castris, exhibition catalogue, Naples, Museo Duca di Martina, 1981, p. 102, no. II.5.

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