Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
early 16th century
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Location and collection unknown, formerly in the Frédéric Spitzer Collection, Paris, France
Object Number
EXH.111990
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall (diameter): 44mm (4.4 cm)
Description
Upper scene: unknown martyr: a half-naked man is attached to pillars and surrounded by soldiers and a variety of other people; lower scene: St. Christopher carries the Christ Child across the water guided by a hermit holding a lantern on the left
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Latin inscriptions carved around scenes in Renaissance capitals:
CRISTVFORI SANCTI SPECIEM QVICV[m]QVE TVET[ur] ILLO NEMPE DIE NON MORTE MALA MORIET[ur] [outer]
MARTHA HAERIGAST CHRISTOFFELS LAST DAT RING VA[n] MARIE VILONS GHEBED [inner upper]
SANCTE CRISTOFORE ORA PRO NOBIS [inner lower]
[source: Molinier & Pabst, 1891]
CRISTVFORI SANCTI SPECIEM QVICV[m]QVE TVET[ur] ILLO NEMPE DIE NON MORTE MALA MORIET[ur] [outer]
MARTHA HAERIGAST CHRISTOFFELS LAST DAT RING VA[n] MARIE VILONS GHEBED [inner upper]
SANCTE CRISTOFORE ORA PRO NOBIS [inner lower]
[source: Molinier & Pabst, 1891]
Published References
Emile Molinier and Arthur Pabst, “Les sculpture en buis et pierre de Munich” La Collection Spitzer III (Paris: Maison Quantin, 1891), no. 15;
Provenance
Provenance
Sold from Frédéric Spitzer collection, Paris, 1893.
Previous Owner(s)
Frédéric Spitzer