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Scallop shell (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 184 C

Ivory

Height: 62mm (diameter)
Depth: 27mm

Nativity; Trinity; dove of the Holy Spirit; God the Father holding an orb.

Museum's opinion 2012: Spain, 16th century

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: blue, gold, brown, red.

Reverse
Carved in the round: appearance of a scallop shell on the back.

Provenance
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 (Rome, 1898), pp. 253-254, no. 184.

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