Crozier with the Annunciation

1260-1290 (Medieval)

11.5 cm 33 cm

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The head of this crozier (pastoral staff) for a bishop or abbot shows the first event of Christ's incarnation. The archangel Gabriel raises his right arm in a gesture indicating his greeting: Hail Mary, full of Grace. He holds a scepter shaped like a lily, a symbol of the Virg...

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Antiquariat Drey, Munich, by purchase; Walter Sneyd, Keele Hall, Staffordshire, ca. 1860, by purchase; his family, 1888, by inheritance; Sale, Christie's, London, July 1902, no. 86; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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