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Relief (appliqué; part of a group) (Front)
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.186

Ivory

Height: 202mm
Width: 45-47mm

Standing angel holding a candlestick in his left hand.


Koechlin Number: 0719

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: 14th century (?), Italy (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding in the hair, traces of red on the lips.

Reverse
Flat. Uncarved. Scoring in the upper part on the back of the statuette.
Carved from a thin curved piece of ivory. Backed with a fill of hard wood (chestnut) to stabilise the figure.

Object Condition
Missing: candlestick.

Comments
Part of the same ensemble as Inv. 71.185. See related objects.

Provenance
Stroganoff collection, Rome. Possibly acquired by Henry Walters through Brummer; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
G. Stroganov, L. Pollak, A. Muñoz, Pièces de choix de la collection du Comte Grégoire Stroganoff à Rome (Rome, 1912), pl. CXXIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 260; II, no. 719.


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