Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; two angels crying in the spandrels.
Border of dentils.
Princeton 1986: French, early 14th century.
New Brunswick 1989: mid-14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 1340-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: nose of saint John.
Comments
No sign of it having been hinged or mounted.
Provenance
Joseph Brummer collection, New York: sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 May 1949, lot 672 [tbc]. Memorial collection of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr.
Bibliography
The Carl Otto von Kienbush, Jr., Memorial Collection, exhibition catalogue, Princeton, The Art Museum, 1956, no. 65.
Selections from the Art Museum Princeton University (Princeton, 1986), p. 60.
A. St. Clair, E. Parker McLachlan, The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, exhibition catalogue, New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989, no. 6.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 78.
B. T. Ross, 'An Art Museum for Princeton', in Record of the Art Museum 55 (1996), p. 62, fig. 10.
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