Saint George and the Dragon

Place of OriginFrance

Dateabout 1850-1870

DimensionsH: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); W: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)

MediumIvory

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1969.296

Not on View

Published ReferencesKoechlin, R., Les Ivoires Gothiques Francais, Paris, 1924, I, p. 351 (incorrectly as from the Spitzer Collection), pl. CLXXIV, no. 985E.

"Recent accessions;" Art Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, 1970, p. 457, repr. p. 456.

Randall, Richard H., Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1993, p. 5. Barnet, Peter ed.,Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997, no. 86.

The Courtauld Institute of Art, Gothic Ivories,2015, Koechlin no. 0985E,Link to resource.

Exhibition HistoryDetroit Institute of Arts; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, 1997, no. 86, pp. 293-294, repr. (col.).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004- January 2, 2005 (no catalogue or checklist).

Comparative ReferencesSee also Mann, J. G., Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Wallace Collection, London, 1931, p. 95, no. S 256.