Inv. 124 C
Koechlin 1924: England, end of 14th century or beginning of 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France, last quarter of the 18th century or 1st half of the 19th century.
Chiesi 2011: Paris or Northern France,1360-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding on the modern wooden core.
Reverse
Carved on all sides.
Object Condition
Trace of missing fittings and lock.
Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861, lot 337; purchased by John Webb. Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), p. 237, no. 124.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 484; II, no. 1279.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 139-141.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 401-409.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 594-5, in relation to no. 179.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 231.
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