Head of a dragon; foliated decoration.
Von Bárány-Oberschal 1953: France, 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (South), c. 1175-1225.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: figures or decoration in the centre of the crozier (probably the Lamb of God or Agnus Dei).
Comments
This crozier is made of three different pieces of ivory.
Provenance
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.
Bibliography
M. von Bárány-Oberschall, 'Contributi alla tipologia dei pasterali in osso dei secoli XIII-XIV', in Corvina XXVI, I (1953), pp. 23-36 (p. 25, pl. I.i).
M. von Bárány-Oberschall, 'Baculus pastoralis. Keltisch-irische Motive auf mittelalterlichen beingeschnitzten Bischofsstäben', in Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, 12 (1958), pp. 13-36.
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