Leather;gilt copper;brass (nails on the bottom);red printed paper with flowers in gold and leaves in black (probably 18th century);bone
Molinier 1890: German, 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Upper Rhenish, middle of 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Three labels glued on the bottom: oval Spitzer sale label covering earlier light blue label and strip of paper with Salting number 1345 glued to earlier pink label with inventory number Y.137.
Object Condition
Leather background discolored and darkened.
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 27 April 1893, lot 142. Collection of George Salting, London: his bequest to the museum in 1910 (no. 1345).
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 107 (E. Molinier).
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910) / Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)', In: List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture), (London, 1910).
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), pp. 57-58.
N. Jopek, 'Der Kardinal', in Kunstchronik 61 (2008), p. 216 (Gd. 141).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 240.
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