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Head of crozier (fragment; crosse) (Side)
Head of crozier (fragment; crosse) (Side)
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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 121 C

Ivory

Height: 175mm

Monster swallowing the base of the volute (dragon).
Foliated decoration.

Chiesi 2011: France or Italy, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: whole volute; foliated decoration along the inner side of the piece.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), pp. 235-236, no. 121.
Miniatura del 400 a San Marco: dalle suggestioni avignonesi all'ambiente dell'Angelico, ed. by M. Scudieri and G. Rasario, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Museo di San Marco, 2003, p. 316, no. II.39 (M. G. Vaccari), pl. 149.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 521-522.


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