Gothic Ivories Project | Chalice-shaped reliquary or pyxis (?) (Side 1)

Chalice-shaped reliquary or pyxis (?) (Side 1)

Chalice-shaped reliquary or pyxis (?) (Side 1)

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Subject
Secular. Romances.

Repository Institution
www.domkammer-muenster.de

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Münster, Domkammer der Katedralkirche St. Paulus (Saint Paul Cathedral Treasury)

Inv. E.36

Silver;gold;ivory

Height: 264 mm

Scenes divided by trees.
Side 1: Aristotle ridden by Phyllis; whip; trees with fruits.
Side 2: seated couple (?) holding a purse (possibly Philistine offering Delilah eleven hundred pieces of silver in return for the secret of Samson's strength)
Side 3: Samson and the lion.
Side 4: Samson's hairlocks are cut off by Delilah.

Koechlin Number: 1243A

Koechlin 1924: German (Westphalia), 15th century.
Museum’s opinion 2013: Münster, c. 1370-1380.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
In the Treasury of Saint Paul's Cathedral in Münster.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 351, 454; III, pl. CCIV.
P. Pieper, Der Domschatz zu Münster (Münster, 1981), no. 54.
G. Jaszai, Die Domkammer der Kathedralkirche Sankt Paulus in Münster (Münster, 1991), pp. 82-84.

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