Arm.
Randall 1993: French (?), last quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French, late 14th century, but cap earlier (early 14th century).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Comments
Hollow arm with a small hole for the relic. Cap on the end of the arm to close the opening.
Provenance
Collection of Meyer, Versailles; sold, 15 September 1935, by Meyer to the Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. P12097); sold on 14 May 1949 at the Brummer sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, lot 692, to the Museum of Fine Arts for $175 (William Francis Warden Fund).
Bibliography
Arts of the Middle Ages 1000-1400, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 137.
Boston Museum Bulletin 60, nos. 301-302 (1957), p. 97, fig. 58.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 48.
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