Standing angel (probably originally holding a candlestick); belt.
Porter 1974: England, c. 1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (hair), colour (lining).
Reverse
Slightly curved, with vertical parallel scoring.
Object Condition
Missing: the figure's right hand (hole for a later repair now lost) and left foot (hole for a later repair now lost); object he holds in his left hand (probably a candlestick); nose (repaired). Repair to the bottom left of the figure at the front. Forehead cracked.
Hole in the base.
Comments
The eyes would presumably have originally been painted.
Provenance
Collection of John Hunt (b. 1900, d. 1976) and Gertrude Hunt (b. 1903, d. 1975), Limerick; now part of the Hunt Museum which opened in 1997.
Bibliography
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 46.
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