Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 2 registers (Front)

Panel, 2 registers (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 90 mm
Width: 70 mm

Register 1: Saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; Saint Anthony abbot, holding a bell and a staff; saint Jerome as a cardinal; lion.
Register 2: Franciscan bishop saint wearing a robe with knotted belt, with mitre and crozier (probably saint Louis of Toulouse); unidentified male saint; martyrdom of saint Sebastian; arrows.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
Ivory pierced projection at the top for suspension.

Provenance
Collection of Herrmann Sax, Vienna: Sax sale, Vienna, Miethke, 4 December 1893, lot 125, with ill.

Image

Out of copyright. From Katalog der Kunstsammlung des verstorbenen heren Herrmann Sax in Wien. Miethke, Vienna, 1893.

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