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Head of crozier (crosse) (Front)

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.33 (Dalton 399)

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 112mm
Depth: 15mm
Weight: 157.7g

Lamb of God (Agnus Dei)(?); hybrid creature; dragon; birds; animal (fox).

Dalton 1909: Italian, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Italian (?), 14th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of cross, horn of lamb, foot of bird at top and foreleg of fox; one side of volute has been broken and re-affixed.
Holes on outer edge for metal attachment, now missing.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890): donated by him to the British Museum in 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 399.

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