Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Musée de Cluny, Paris, France
Object Number
21.325
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Open (diameter): 45mm (4.5 cm)
Description
Inner: Annunciation, two angels holding shield; Outer: Virgin in the Sun, Man of Sorrows
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
MVLIER AMICTA SOLE ET LVNA SUB PE[dibus] E[jus] [around Virgin and Child; source: Apocalypse 12:1]
ADORAM[u]S TE DOMINE IESV CRISTE BENEDICT[us] [around Man of Sorrows]
ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MIHI SECVNDVM V[erbum] TV[um] [around Annunciation; source: Luke 1:38]
CONVESCENS IN EDVLIVM SE MORIENS DAT IN PRECIV[m] [around arms; source: hymn Verbum supernum prodiens]
[source: Sauzay 1861 pp 48-49]
MVLIER AMICTA SOLE ET LVNA SUB PE[dibus] E[jus] [around Virgin and Child; source: Apocalypse 12:1]
ADORAM[u]S TE DOMINE IESV CRISTE BENEDICT[us] [around Man of Sorrows]
ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MIHI SECVNDVM V[erbum] TV[um] [around Annunciation; source: Luke 1:38]
CONVESCENS IN EDVLIVM SE MORIENS DAT IN PRECIV[m] [around arms; source: hymn Verbum supernum prodiens]
[source: Sauzay 1861 pp 48-49]
Published References
Alexandre Sauzay, Catalogue du Musée Sauvageot (Paris: Musée Impérial du Louvre, 1861) , pp 48-49, no. 192
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 56
Provenance
Provenance
Sauvageot Collection, Paris
Previous Owner(s)
Charles Sauvageot