Inv. 71.174
Saint Simeon and Christ (fragment of a Presentation in the Temple); Christ seated on right arm; priest.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 1250-1260.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding along the hems.
Reverse
Carved in the half-round. Scoring and two holes for attachment on the back.
Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ.
Comments
Was probably originally attached to a retable or altar frontal (Randall 1985).
Provenance
Bought from Léon Gruel by Henry Walters in Paris in 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
P. Verdier, 'Les Ivoires de Walters Art Gallery', in Art International, 7 (1963), no. 3, p. 31, fig. 9.
R. H. Randall, Medieval Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1969), no. 14.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 265.
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