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

Head of crozier (crosse) (Side)

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.223

Ivory;silver (pins)

Height: 136mm
Width: 116mm
Depth: 24mm

Lamb of God (Agnus Dei).

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

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: patterns along the volute including crosses.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Dmitri Schevitch. Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris: sold 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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