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Crozier (crosse)

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Subject
Religious. Secular. Hunting scene.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 3586

Ivory

Height: 1640 mm
Width: 142 mm
Depth: 67 mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Angel supporting the volute.
Knop: unidentified saints and figures including two kings holding sceptres, a queen holding a sceptre, a bishop with bishop's mitre and crozier (blessing gesture), a soldier in armour
Foliated decoration; foliated scrolls with dogs and birds; soldier in armour in bust at the base of the volute on one side; queen on the other side.
Musician angels (harp; psaltery; string instrument
Openwork tracery; columns; rows of arches. Row of monkey-like monsters (further down along the staff).

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Spanish (Francisco Pallas y Puig), 1st third of the 20th century.

Attribution
Francisco Pallas y Puig (b. 1859, d. 1926), of Valencia

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (?)

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Worn, minor ivory pieces missing.

Provenance
Transferred from the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh) to the Hermitage in 1933.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 216.

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