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Head of crozier (crosse) (Side)

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88259340 (EE230)

Ivory;walrus ivory (later staff)

Height: 222mm
Width: 114mm
Depth: 17mm (volute) and 42mm (knop)

Side 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Side 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge Glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Snake with human bust.
Foliated decoration: vine leaves.

Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2009: French, c. 1340-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head of the snake.
The base of the volute on the Virgin side is damaged.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 126. Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 91 (E. Molinier).

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