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Comb (peigne double) (Side 1)

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Side 2

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Subject
Religious. Old Testament.

Repository Institution
www.polomuseale.firenze.it

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 12 A

Ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 148mm

Susannah and the Elders
Side 1: ladies dancing a carole; ladies holding hands; Susannah bathing in a fountain; two bearded men hiding behind trees.
Side 2: the elders accost Susannah; Susannah falsely accused; soldier; punishment of the elders; elders tied to a tree.
Foliated decoration; flowers; crosshatched background.

Florence 2011-2012 (Chiesi): Northern France or Flanders, last decade of the 15th century or early 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Provenance
Medici collection.

Bibliography
A. Campani, Guida per il visitatore del R. Museo Nazionale nell'antico palazzo del Potestà in Firenze (Florence, 1884), p. 123.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), p. 367.
Denaro e Bellezza, I banchieri, Botticelli e il rogo delle vanità, ed. by T. Parks and L. Sebregondi, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 17 September 2011-22 January 2012, p. 214, no. 7.7 (B. Chiesi).

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