Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
c. 1500
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object Number
6921-1860
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Closed: 38.5mm (3.9 cm)
Overall Open: 43mm × 83.6mm (4.3 × 8.4 cm)
Overall Open: 43mm × 83.6mm (4.3 × 8.4 cm)
Description
Upper scene: St Jerome is seated at his desk in his study with the lion beside him; lower scene: St Catherine of Alexandria is seated beside a broken wheel holding a sword (symbols of her martyrdom) and a falcon (symbol of her nobility).
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions around scenes:
SANCTE HIERONIME ORA PRO NOBIS [inner upper - Saint Jerome, pray for us.]
SANCTA KATHERINA ORA PRO NOBIS [inner lower - Saint Catherine, pray for us.]
[source: Williamson 2002]
SANCTE HIERONIME ORA PRO NOBIS [inner upper - Saint Jerome, pray for us.]
SANCTA KATHERINA ORA PRO NOBIS [inner lower - Saint Catherine, pray for us.]
[source: Williamson 2002]
Published References
Kurt Dingelstedt, “Betnuss” Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte I Edited by Otto Schmitt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1948): 373; Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1860. In: Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 1; Williamson, Paul. Netherlandish Sculpture 1450-1550. London, 2002. pp. 142-3, ill., cat.no. 46;
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 43
Provenance
Previous Owner(s)
Unsorted