Inv. MA 2011
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm; sheep.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.
Berliner 1926 and Museum's opinion 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Chamfered along the outer edge. Recessed along the inner edge.
Blue and white label with inscription: '394'. Ink inscription: 'Nr. 1411'.
Illegible scratched inscriptions including 'xxiij'?.
Provenance
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. 1378, 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. 55.
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