Description
SET OF TWENTY-FOUR CARVED AND OPEN-HEADED BONE PLAQUES, representing scenes from different cycles. One can recognize the Massacre of the Innocents and the Adoration of the Golden Calf from the Bible and passages from the story of Paris, when he is taken in by the shepherd Algeleus, the Judgment of Paris and the abduction of Helen. In a carved bone and rosewood veneer frame decorated with fleur-de-lis. Italy, Florence, workshop of Balthazar Embriachi, circa 1400 (small missing and restored, one plate broken and reattached, reassembled). H_23 cm W_86.2 cm D_4.2 cm Provenance: - Collection Paul Corbin - Sale Mes Beaussant et Lefèvre, Drouot, 5 April 2013, lot 57
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SET OF TWENTY-FOUR CARVED AND OPEN-HEADED BONE PLAQUES, representing scenes from different cycles. One can recognize the Massacre of the Innocents and the Adoration of the Golden Calf from the Bible and passages from the story of Paris, when he is taken in by the shepherd Algeleus, the Judgment of Paris and the abduction of Helen. In a carved bone and rosewood veneer frame decorated with fleur-de-lis. Italy, Florence, workshop of Balthazar Embriachi, circa 1400 (small missing and restored, one plate broken and reattached, reassembled). H_23 cm W_86.2 cm D_4.2 cm Provenance: - Collection Paul Corbin - Sale Mes Beaussant et Lefèvre, Drouot, 5 April 2013, lot 57
