Side 1: Christ in Glory; open book; angels holding navettes and swinging censers; dragon head.
Side 2: seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a sceptre; angels holding navettes and swinging censers; Virgin trampling a winged dragon (basilisk) under her left foot; clouds.
Foliated decoration: vine leaf pattern and grapes.
Molinier 1890: Italy, 13th century.
Bode 1897: Italian, 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy or Lower Saxony or Westphalia, 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Cracked.
Comments
This crozier is made of three different pieces of ivory.
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 70. Collection of Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894), Berlin (Inv. Eb. 3). Duveen Brothers, Paris, London, and New York: purchased by the Museum thanks to the Hewitt Fund in 1911.
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 35 (E. Molinier).
W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin, 1897), no. 132.
The Collection of Oscar Hainauer (London, 1906), pp. 26, 81, no. 132.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sculpture (New York, 1916), no. III.
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