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Corpus (fragment) (Back)

Corpus (fragment) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 89

Ivory

Height: 40mm
Width: 25mm
Depth: 28mm

Head of crucified Christ; crown of thorns.

Sauzay 1863: 16th century.
Molinier 1896: French, 15th century.
Malgouyres 2010: German, end of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: rest of Christ's body.

Comments
The holes in the crown seem to have originally accommodated ivory, wood or metal thorns.

Provenance
Acquired by Charles Sauvageot in 1832 ('1218. 1 tête de Christ en ivoire 5 [fr.]'); donation to the Museum by Sauvageot in 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 234, p. 58.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Série A. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. A.14, p. 4.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 146, p. 291.
P. Malgouyres, Ivoires de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes. La Collection du Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2010), no. 1.


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