Unidentified female saint holding a book and an ointment pot.
Molinier 1896: Flanders, late 15th or early 16th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), before 1856.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Hole under the base.
Comments
Molinier (1896) claimed that the statuette depicted Saint Claire.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 236); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot to the Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 236.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 15.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 147.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 287.
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