Inv. MA 2026
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.
Berliner 1926 and Museum's opinion 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Later metal frame with inscriptions with former number ('379'?) and current museum number.
Object Condition
Vertical cracks down the panel: this panel was probably framed to keep the pieces together.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Possibly with Inv. MA 2044 from the Nerianer-Institut, Aufhausen. Acquired by the Museum before 1896.
Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1393, pl. XXVIII.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 52.
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