Crozier with the Annunciation

early 13th Century (Medieval)

15 cm 28.8 cm 7.1 cm

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The volute (spiral head) of this crozier resembles a dragon. With a long curving neck covered with blue enamel scales, its grinning head bites at a leafy branch. Inside are the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel in a scene of the Annunciation. Gabriel's abbreviated greeting...

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Charles Borradaile, Brighton, England, 1895, by purchase; Marcello Galli-Dunn, Castello di Badia, Poggibonsi, Tuscany, by purchase; Sale, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, May 1, 1905, no. 338, pl. 33; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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