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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Zürich, Swiss National Museum

AG 1321

Ivory

Height: 60mm
Width: 13mm
Depth: 10 mm

Saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; Christ holding an orb in his left hand; blessing gesture.

Museum's opinion 2013: 14th century

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
From the Abbey of Rheinau (Canton of Zürich); endowment to the Antiquarische Gesellschaft, Zürich; transferred to the Swiss National Museum in 1891.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 491, in relation to no. 224.
Des saints et des hommes, dir. by M.-C. Morand and S. Baiocco (Milan, 2013).

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