Side 1: Couples holding hands (dancing?); two male musicians blowing trumpets; trees.
Side 2: tonsured cleric (priest?) blessing a seated figure; onlookers including a couple; trees.
Warren 2014: Northern Italy, early 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding: gold (decorative pattern on the background; hair; leaves; etc.).
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861, lot 368 (?). Collection of Hollingworth Magniac: his sale, Christie's, London, 2-4 July 1892, lot 254. Antocolsky collection: his sale, 1903, lot 23. Collection of Jacques and Belle Linsky. Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1994, lot 107. On loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994-1997. Christie's, New York, 28 January 1998, lot 11. Daniel Katz Ltd. (dealer), London, in 2001.
Bibliography
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 524-526, fig. 200, in relation to no. 151.
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