Side 1: Seated Christ in glory with hands raised.
Side 2: Seated Christ in glory with hands raised; blessing gesture; orb or fruit.
Around the base of the volute: crowned Virtues under trefoil arches; Prudence holding a lamp (side 1); Temperance pouring water into a flask (inner side); Fortitude with the lion (side 2); Justice with her scales (outer side).
Foliated decoration.
Molinier 1890: Italy, 14th century.
Bode 1897: Italian, 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Italian (possibly Lombardy), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (patterns on Christ's robe, along the hems; halo; foliage.
Reverse
Carved in the round. Incised on the shaft (side 1): 'D. L.'.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the left hand of Christ.
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 121 (P. Chevallier, Catalogue des objets d'art de haute curiosité: Antiques du moyen-âge et de la Renaissance, composante l'importante et précieuse Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1893), no. 121). Collection of Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894), Berlin (Inv. Eb. 4). Duveen Brothers collection, Paris, London, and New York: sale 1906; J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 86 (E. Molinier).
W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin, 1897), no. 133.
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