Inv. 116 C
Legend of Saint Eustace.
Register 1: saint Eustace and his family; soldier in armour. Battle; knights in armour on horseback; soldiers with heart-shaped shields with a face; helms.
Register 2: Eustace and his family refuse to worship pagan statues; Eustace and his family kneel in prayer before the blessing hand of God; clouds; Hadrian worships idols; king. Hadrian orders saint Eustace and his family to be burnt alive in a brazen bull (ox); executioner with winged hat; martyrdom of saint Eustace; angel.
Chiesi 2011: Paris, c. 1320-1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth, with some scratches.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the lower right corner. Holes for the missing fittings.
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), p. 234, no. 116.
E. Gerspach, 'La Collection Carrand au musée national de Florence', in Les Arts 32 (August 1904), p. 61.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 211-225.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 168.
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