Gothic Ivories Project | Head of crozier (crosse) (Side)

Head of crozier (crosse) (Side)

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.224

Ivory

Width: 120mm
Depth: 19mm

Animal or dragon head.
Foliated decoration.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy, 12th-13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel, Paris (b. 1855, d. 1915): his sale 1911; collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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