Gothic Ivories Project | Casket, with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (End, left)

Casket, with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (End, left)

Casket, with arches (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (End, left)

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Body, front

Bottom

Lid

End, right

Links

Subject
Religious. Lives of saints.

Repository Institution
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London, Victoria and Albert Museum

A.45-1935

Gilt-copper (fittings);velvet (modern lining);ivory

Height: 80 mm
Width: 194 mm
Depth: 88 mm

Lid
Annunciation; vase of lilies. Visitation; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity; curtain. Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; hanging lamp.
Body, front
Legend of saint Eustace: saint Eustace hunting on horseback blowing a horn; vision of saint Eustace; saint Eustace kneeling; head of Christ between the stag's antlers; saint Eustace leading his family to be baptised; trees.
End, right
Baptism of saint Eustace and his family; bishop with mitre and crozier.
Body, back
Saint Eustace and his family (wife and two sons) flee Rome. The sea voyage of saint Eustace and his family; the captain of the boat leaving with Eustace's wife by way of payment for the journey. One of Eustace's sons is seized by a lion; Eustace's second son is seized by a wolf; trees.
End, left
Hadrian orders saint Eustace and his family to be burnt alive in a brazen bull (ox); executioner with winged hat; martyrdom of saint Eustace; hand of God; bellows.

Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), 1330-50.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
The brass lion feet and the fittings are believed to be modern.
Holes for missing fittings.

Comments
Fittings and feet probably added by Demotte.

Provenance
Estate of Georges Joseph Demotte, Paris: Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1935, lot 55; purchased by the museum at this sale.

Bibliography
The Connoisseur, XCVI (1935), p. 101.
Victoria and Albert Museum Annual Review, 1935, pp. 5-6, pl. 3c.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), p. 211.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 168.

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