Inv. F 3589
In the gables: angels holding shields with coats of arms (variation on the arms of the Aragonese kingdom of Naples).
Band with medallions with male and female figures.
Apostles in niches including saint Peter holding a key (in the centre).
Register 1: Presentation in the Temple (?); Simeon; Joseph holding doves brought as offerings. Unidentified male saint with hands in prayer; standing Virgin and Child; unidentified female saint with hands crossed on her chest. Saint Peter holding keys; unidentified male saint; unidentifield male saint holding a book.
Register 2: unidentified male saints under arches (possibly standing Christ in the centre).
Wing, right
Register 1: unidentified male saints.
Register 2: unidentified male saints under arches.
Foliated decoration (vine leaves; grapes); tracery; rows of blind arches; pointed trefoils.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Spanish (Francisco Pallas y Puig), 1880s-1890s.
Attribution
Francisco Pallas y Puig (b. 1859, d. 1926), of Valencia
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold, red (heraldry).
Reverse
Hidden by the wooden frame.
Object Condition
Small details of the ornament lost. Wood cracked.
Provenance
Collection of Stepan Nikolaevich Mitusov (b. 1847, d. 1922?), Saint Petersburg: his sale, Saint Petersburg, 1897, lot 169 (Catalog kolletsii predmetov iz slonovoi kosti S. I. Mitusova (St Petersburg 1897), no. 169). Transferred from the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh) to the Hermitage in 1933.
Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 208.
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