Gothic Ivories Project | Belt pendant (Side 2)

Side 1: standing Virgin and Child; Christ holding a rosary
Side 2: saint Augustine of Hippo, as a bishop, with mitre, crozier and a heart.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration. Scallop shell niche. Twisted columns.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Both sides of the pendant are worn.

Comments
Recess in the middle of the upepr edge for the belt.

Provenance
Collection of Nikolai Petrovich Balashov (b. 1840, d. 1931), Saint Petersburg; donated to the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh) before 1902; transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Katalog Muzeia Imperatorskogo Obshchestva pooshchreniia khudozhestv (Saint Petersburg, 1904), p. 434, no. 103.
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 26.
S. Vandenberghe, Ivory in Bruges. Treasures from Museums, Churches and Monasteries in Museum Bulletin (Musea Brugge, 2010), p. 26.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 141.

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