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Casket (coffret) (End, right)

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Body, back

Body, front

End, left

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 122 C

Ivory;metal (fittings;hinges;lock);wood;fabric (lining of the interior)

Height: 150mm
Width: 225mm
Depth: 130mm

Lid, top
Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); trees. Coronation of the Virgin. Saint Catherine of Alexandria with broken wheel and martyr's palm.
Lid, front
Saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm; brooch. Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit. Saint Stephen holding a book and a stone.
Body, front
Joachim and Anna bring lambs to be sacrificed, but the High Priest rejects their offerings because they are childless; hanging lamp. Joachim in the wilderness with his shepherds. Annunciation of the birth of the Virgin to Joachim by an angel. Annunciation of the birth of the Virgin Mary to Anna by an angel.
End, right
Meeting at the Golden Gate (Meeting of Joachim and Anna); hanging purse. Birth of the Virgin; midwife bathing the Virgin.
Lid, back
Unidentified female saint holding a mirror. Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); tree; ointment pot. Saint Margaret emerging from the dragon, holding a crucifix.
Body, back
Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple; hanging lamp. Virgin praying in the Temple; hanging lamp. Virgin weaving with angel. Betrothal of Joseph and the Virgin.
End, left
Annunciation; Visitation.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration.

Museum's opinion 2012: Flanders, end of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Several panels cracked vertically.

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), p. 236, no. 122.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 175.

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