Enthroned bishop with mitre and crozier; blessing gesture; tonsured attendant holding an open book; attendant holding a staff.
Interlaced foliated decoration.
Museum's opinion 2012: Norway (Trondheim?), c. 1150- 1200.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round: interlaced foliated decoration on the back of the throne.
Object Condition
Missing: upper left corner of the back of the throne.
Provenance
Hamburger Frères, Paris (sold 1911); collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917.
Bibliography
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no.
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