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Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 790

Bronze (frame);ivory

Height: 121 mm (with frame)
Width: 48 mm (with frame)
Depth: 13 mm (with frame)

Tonsured saint Peter holding a key and a scroll.
Twisted columns.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: 1st half of the 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the frame.

Object Condition
Edges cut to fit into a frame; vertical cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Dmitry Pavlovich Tatischchev (b. 1767, d. 1845), Saint Petersburg; his bequest to the Museum in 1846 (documented as part of the Treasure Gallery of the Winter Palace: Arkhiv GE, F. 1, Op. 2, D. 74, Inventar' Galerei Dragotsennostei (Saint Petersburg, 1846), pl. 163).

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 173.


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