Inv. 3185
Seven Liberal Arts with attributes. Trivium, Quadrivium, and Medicine.
Geometry holding a square and a compass; Arithmetic holding a tablet; Astronomy holding a sundial and looking at the sky; unidentified seated figure holding a sun or star; Grammar holding a bundle of rods and teaching students; Rhetoric as a friar teaching three scholars; Music playing bells; Medicine holding a vial of urine; seated lady (patient?); Dialectic (?) holding a glove; standing man.
Fleur-de-lys; pinnacles.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, 14th century.
Camón Aznar 1951: French, 14th century.
Von Philippowich 1961: French, c. 1330-50.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: several faces, part of a pinnacle, part of the square held by Geometry.
Comments
Enamelled medallion in the bottom containing a shield with an unidentified coat of arms with an oak tree and acorns. This piece is very similar to another chalice in the the chalice in the Milan Cathedral Treasury.
Provenance
In the collection of the Museo Lázaro Galdiano by 1949.
Bibliography
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 20.
E. von Philippowich, Elfenbein (Brunswick, 1961), p. 69, fig. 54.
M. Estella, 'La Talla del marfil', in Historia de las Artes Aplicadas e Industriales en España (Madrid, 1982), pp. 435-462 (p. 454).
M.-M. Estella Marcos, La Escultura de marfil en España románica y gótica (Madrid, 1984), p. 196.
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