Gothic Ivories Project | Casket (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Lid)

Lid
Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); Saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; saint Peter holding a key; saint Paul holding a sword.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
All other sides: quatrefoils.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Provenance
Paul Garnier collection, Paris (in 1906). Paris, Drouot, 18-23 December 1916, lot 45. George Blumenthal collection, New York: given by him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1941.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, no. 168.
G. Migeon, 'Collection Paul Garnier', in Les Arts 53 (May 1906), pt. 2, pp. 13-24 (p. 16).
S. Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the collection of George and Florence Blumenthal (Paris, 1926), III, pl. VIII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 169.

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