Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Side, left)

Statuette (Side, left)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.152 (Dalton 339)

Ivory;metal (later crown);wood (base)

Height: 155mm (figure)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria trampling emperor Maxentius; wheel; sword.

Koechlin Number: 0711

Dalton 1909: French or Flemish, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern French or Flemish, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (eyes).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
The crown is a modern replacement.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 339, pl. LXXV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 258; II, no. 711.

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