Inv. 2461
Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child (Anna Selbdritt); crowned Virgin; naked Christ.
Columns.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Flemish, 1st quarter of the 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Curved. Ivory handle set into a chamfered slot.
Labels with inscriptions: 'No. 42 MUSEE SAINT-OMER', 'EXP[OSITI]ON RETROSPECTIVE DE 1900 549 St-Omer', '191', 'No. 49 MUSEE de Saint-Omer'.
Object Condition
Two central holes in the upper part of the piece.
Provenance
From the former abbey of Clairmarais. Collection of M. Facied: his gift to the Museum on 30 October 1836.
Bibliography
Catalogue de l'Exposition rétrospective des arts et monuments du Pas-de-Calais, exhibition catalogue, Arras, 20 May-21 June 1896, no. 2641.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 193.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 335; II, no. 908.
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