Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
early 16th century
Medium
boxwood, later gilded silver case
Credit Line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number
17.190.328
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall: 67mm × 44mm (6.7 × 4.4 cm)
Description
Upper scene: Last Judgement; Lower scene: Death over Feast
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Latin inscription carved on silver frame:
OMNES.STABIMVS.ANTE.TRIBVNAL.CHRISTI.AD.ROMANOS.14 [upper inner - Romans 14:10]
VIGILATE.ERGO.QVIA.NESCITIS.QVA.HORA.DOMINVS.MATH.24 [lower inner - Matthew 24:42]
[source: Met site]
OMNES.STABIMVS.ANTE.TRIBVNAL.CHRISTI.AD.ROMANOS.14 [upper inner - Romans 14:10]
VIGILATE.ERGO.QVIA.NESCITIS.QVA.HORA.DOMINVS.MATH.24 [lower inner - Matthew 24:42]
[source: Met site]
Published References
Richard Marks, Two Early Sixteenth Century Boxwood Carvings Associated with the Glymes Family of Bergen op Zoom (Oud Holland, 91, 1977) p. 142n15
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 37
Provenance
Provenance
Jacques Victor, Comte de la Béraudière (until 1885; sale of Béraudière collection, 1885, no. 551, p. 108); Charles Mannheim (in 1898); J. Pierpont Morgan (until 1917; to MMA)
Previous Owner(s)
Jacques Victor Comte de la Béraudière
M. Charles Mannheim
J. Pierpont Morgan