Inv. 64660 (Morey A102)
Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents; soldiers with swords.
Foliated decoration.
Westwood 1876: Germany (?), 16th or 17th century.
Egbert 1929: Italy (Venice?), c. 1400.
Morey 1936: Northern Italy, c. 1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression. Part of it has been shaved away, hence the variation in depth.
Object Condition
Four holes.
Provenance
Mentioned in the inventory of Clement XIII, pope from 1758 to 1769 (Inv. Clemente XIII, f. 92v).
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 875 ('58.198) and Appendix, p. 343.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), II, no. 33, pl. IX.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques francais (Paris, 1924), I, p. 413.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), p. 182, fig. 25.
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 83, no. A102, pl. XXVII.
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