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Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Back)
Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Religious.

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Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Inv. AN2008.16

Ivory

Height: 87 mm
Width: 52 mm
Depth: 7 mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Beaded border.

Warren 2014: perhaps Flanders, probably 18th or 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side. Two small flat areas on the beaded left border possibly for hinges corresponding to two pairs of incisions on the edge. According to Warren 2014, no hinges were ever inserted.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Worn.

Provenance
Collection of Henry Joseph Pfungst (b. 1844, d. 1917); his gift in 1899; Department of Western Art (WA 1908.194); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.

Bibliography
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 190.


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