Inv. Pl.O. 377
Saint Bartholomew with a flaying knife; saint James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff; saint Anthony Abbot with tau-headed staff.
Foliated decoration.
Koechlin 1924: Italy, 15th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern Italy, c. 1400.
Attribution
Style of the Innes Diptych (Egbert 1929)
Hinges
Traces of two missing ring hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: green (garments), red (beards, hair, architectural details), blue (tracery), gold (faces, shoes, frame, arches).
Reverse
Smooth and flat.
Object Condition
Right side damaged.
Provenance
Collection of Freiherr von Aufseß; acquired in 1856 by the Museum.
Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 52.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 635.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 349; III, pl. CLXXIII, no. 985D.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 177, fig. 20].
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 84, in relation to no. A103.
C. R. Morey, 'A Group of Gothic Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery', in Art Bulletin, 18 (1936), pp. 210-211.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), pp. 251-252, no. 231.
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