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Belt pendant (mordant de ceinture) (Front)

Belt pendant (mordant de ceinture) (Front)
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Side 2

Side 1

Subject
Religious.

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Liège, Le Grand Curtius

GC.ADC.02d.0000.67744 (MAAD I/7475)

Ivory

Height: 58mm
Width: 29mm
Depth: 6mm

Side 1: saint Catherine of Alexandria; emperor Maxentius; broken wheel; sword.
Side 2: Saint Augustine of Hippo, as a bishop, with mitre, crozier and a heart.
Crosshatched background; scalloped arch; foliated decoration; beaded border.

KIK/IRPA database (accessed in 2009): 1st half of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part of the piece, presumably to attach it to the belt. Chipped along the edges. Pieces missing in the upper and lower part. Vertical cracks.

Provenance
Donation of Edgar de Marneffe at an unknown date to the Institut Archéologique Liégeois.

Bibliography
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


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