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Casket (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Casket (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Lid

End, right

Back

End, left

Lid

Interior

Bottom

Subject
Religious. Saints.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

41.100.158

Ivory;metal (fittings)

Height: 70mm
Width: 141mm
Depth: 118mm

Lid
Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); Saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; saint Peter holding a key; saint Paul holding a sword.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
All other sides: quatrefoils.

Paris 1900: 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Provenance
Paul Garnier collection, Paris (in 1906). Paris, Drouot, 18-23 December 1916, lot 45. George Blumenthal collection, New York: given by him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1941.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, no. 168.
G. Migeon, 'Collection Paul Garnier', in Les Arts 53 (May 1906), pt. 2, pp. 13-24 (p. 16).
S. Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the collection of George and Florence Blumenthal (Paris, 1926), III, pl. VIII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 169.


Image

Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

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