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Crozier with the Annunciation   (  )
Artist	Anonymous (France)Unknown author
Title	Crozier with the Annunciation
Description	English: 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 "Hail Mary, full of Grace" (Luke 1:28) appears in white enameled letters on each side of the volute. On one side the greeting is misspelled. In Christian symbolism, the dragon represented the Devil who misled mankind, while the Annunciation initiated Christ's birth and human redemption.
Date	early 13th century date QS:P571,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P4241,Q40719727 (Middle Ages era QS:P2348,Q12554 )
Medium	champlevé enamel on copper with gilding and semiprecious stones
Dimensions	28.8 × 15 × 7.1 cm (11.3 × 5.9 × 2.7 in)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	44.25
Place of creation	Limoges, France
Object history	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 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters
Inscriptions	On obverse side of crozier volute in enamel text: AVE MARIA GRA PLE; [Transcription] AVE MARIA GRA[TIA] PLE[NA]; [Translation] Hail Mary, full of grace. On reverse side of crozier volute in enamel text: AVE MARIA GRA PIEM;[Transcription] AVE MARIA GRA[TIA] PIEM; [Translation] Hail Mary, full of grace. The word PLENA (full) is misspelled as PIEM in this inscription.
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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