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| Keywords: French - Saints and Censing Angel - Walters 71126 - Reverse.jpg Two female saints one with a jar and book and the other with a bird and palm face to the left beneath a trefoil arch Above an angel kneels beneath a round arch and holds a censer and incense boat The panel has been broken and cut to conform with the arch at the top and has broken miters for hinges on the left side The right border has been narrowed There are traces of polychromy particularly in the surrounds of the lower arch The back of the panel shows signs of having had a clasp attached to it and there are remains of a standing bearded saint in polychrome The head of the saint is incised into the ivory Although the style of the carved figures on the front is broad with apron-style drapery that of the painted saint on the back is elegant and elongated normally datable to about 1250-1260 While it seems likely that the ivory was painted in a second and very conservative atelier the fact that the head of the saint is incised into the ivory suggests it was drawn by an ivory worker between 1330 1350 Medieval ivory traces of polychromy cm 16 8 4 5 accession number 71 126 7148 London 1862 exhibited a the South Kensington Museum no 161 John Watkins Brett London date of acquisition unknown by purchase J Brett Sale Christie's London April 18 1864 no 2008 Octave Homberg Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Octave Homberg Sale Hôtel Drouot Paris May 11 1908 no 484 Jacques Seligmann Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Medieval ivory in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
