Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
before 1524
Medium
boxwood with eighteenth-century leather case
Credit Line
Musée national de la Renaissance – Château d'Ecouen
Object Number
ECL 21327
Location
AGO, Gallery 135 Betty Ann & Fraser Elliott Gallery
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall: 87mm × 97mm (8.7 × 9.7 cm)
Description
M of Margaret of Austria with scenes of the life of St. Margaret of Antioch from the Golden Legend:
front: the kidnapping of Margaret; Margaret before the governor who ordered her kidnapping
back: [Upper] the beating of Margaret; the execution of Margaret; [lower] Margaret with the dragon; Margaret with a devil
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved on both rondels at bottom on one side:
M
M
Published References
Alexandre Sauzay, Catalogue du Musée Sauvageot (Paris: Musée Impérial du Louvre, 1861) 46-47, no. 189 bis; Richard Marks, Two Early Sixteenth Century Boxwood Carvings Associated with the Glymes Family of Bergen op Zoom (Oud Holland, 91, 1977) p. 140
Provenance
Provenance
Potentially named in Margaret of Austria's 1524 inventory: Une belle M de bois, bien taillee a une petite chayne de bois, pendant aux lettres du nom de Jhesus. Bon, Revoil, Charles Sauvageot
Previous Owner(s)
Charles Sauvageot