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Body, front
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End, right
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End, left
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Bottom
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Subject
Religious.
Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge
Cl. 431
Ivory;metal (probably original fittings);wood (core)
Height: 195mm
Width: 123mm
Depth: 105mm
Lid, top
Intarsia.
Lid, front
Seated saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei). Seated queen (?). Seated king saint (?). Seated saint Catherine of Alexandria with broken wheel and martyr's palm.
Body, front
Saint John the Evangelist with the poisoned cup and a martyr's palm. Saint Peter holding a key. Saint Paul holding a sword. Saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel.
Lid, right
Musician angel blowing trumpet.
End, right
Saint Andrew with a saltire cross. Saint Bartholomew with a flaying knife.
Lid, back
Saint Thomas with a square. Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit. Saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm.
Body, back
Saint James the Lesser with a fuller's club. Saint or apostle with an axe (possibly saint Jude (Thaddeus) with a halberd). Saint or apostle with a falchion. Saint Stephen with a stone (?).
Lid, left
Musician angel playing the harp.
End, left
Saint Simon with a saw. Saint Judas with a spear.
Crosshatched background. Bottom: chequered pattern.
Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish (?), 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: red for lips, black for beards, hair; blue, green, etc.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.
Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1109.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 112, in relation to no. 20.
Image
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