Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Object Number
237
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall Closed: 37.7mm × 40mm (3.8 × 4 cm)
Overall Open: 28.1mm × 28.1mm × 75.5mm (2.8 × 2.8 × 7.5 cm)
Overall Open: 28.1mm × 28.1mm × 75.5mm (2.8 × 2.8 × 7.5 cm)
Description
Lower capsule: St. George, mounted, slays the dragon while the princess looks on; Upper capsule is empty
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions on case:
PROIET SONA TVAM IN COLLVM DRACONIS [around scene of St.George]
NU[N]C QVIA CELORV[M] ERVIT GEORGI[VS] ALTA [outside]
[source: Mesenzeva 1978]
PROIET SONA TVAM IN COLLVM DRACONIS [around scene of St.George]
NU[N]C QVIA CELORV[M] ERVIT GEORGI[VS] ALTA [outside]
[source: Mesenzeva 1978]
Published References
Charmian A. Mesenzeva, Spätgotische Miniaturschnitzereien (Pantheon Jan-March 1978) pp 31-35; Hermitage 1988, 91, 92
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 48
Provenance
Provenance
Alexei P. Basilewsky, Paris/Leningrad, Russia; entered Hermitage 1885
Previous Owner(s)
Alexei P. Basilewsky