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Painted crozier (crosse) (Side)

Painted crozier (crosse) (Side)
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Subject
Religious.

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Siena, Museo dell'Opera della Metropolitana

Inv. OA/3060

Ivory

Height: 1770 mm
Width: 198 mm

Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); cross; eagle.
Monster swallowing the base of the volute. Foliated decoration.

Carli 1979: Siena, 2nd half of the 14th century (?).
Carli 1989: Siena, 14th century.
Torriti 2000: beginning of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: gold (painted decoration including foliated decoration, stags, lions, dragon or griffin, etc), red (teeth and ears of the dragon).

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Provenance
[information not yet communicated]

Bibliography
E. Carli, Il Duomo di Siena (Genoa, 1979), p. 160.
E. Carli, Il Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Siena, 1989), p. 47.
P. Torriti, Tutta Siena contrada per contrada (Florence, 2000), p. 31.
Bastoni: materia, arte, potere, ed. by A. Gerardi, R. Traballesi, A. Zina, exhibition catalogue, Siena, Complesso museale di Santa Maria della Scala, 16 June-26 August 2006.


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