Gothic Ivories Project | Double-sided panel (inset as part of the binding of a book), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Side 1)

Double-sided panel (inset as part of the binding of a book), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Side 1)

Double-sided panel (inset as part of the binding of a book), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Side 1)

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Side 2

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Subject
Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. W.106

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 50mm

Side 1: Nativity with Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm; sheep; angel holding a scroll.
Side 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll.
Incised trefoils.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: German (Rhenish?), last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Provenance
Inset in the cover of an English manuscript by Léon Gruel; bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel and Engleman, Paris, 9 June 1903; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 314.

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