Gothic Ivories Project | Fragment of the head of a crozier (crosse)

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Italy (Tuscany or Venice), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (orange-red, light blue. See report by Guineau, 1995).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Hole under the base. Brown stains.
Missing: inscription around the frame which (presumably) originally allowed the prophet to be identified.

Provenance
Collection of Baron Jean-Charles Davillier (no. 56); bequest of J.-C. Davillier to the Museum in 1883.

Bibliography
L. Courajod and E. Molinier, Donation du baron Charles Davillier. Catalogue des objets exposés au musée du Louvre (Paris, 1885), no. 56.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 197.

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