Side 1: under a trefoil arch, seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; two standing angels holding candlesticks; crown. Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
Side 2: under a trefoil arch, Crucifixion; swooning Virgin; saint John the Evangelist; Longinus in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; chalice collecting Christ's blood at the foot of the cross.
Rounded trefoils and angel's heads in the spandrels.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
The cross was certainly originally painted.
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel. Hole in the underside of the panel.
Comments
Koechlin (1924) identified the bearded figure supporting the Virgin as saint John the Evangelist, and the figure on the other side of the cross as one of the Holy Women.
Provenance
Collection of Abbé Rocher (in 1876). Acquired by the Museum before 1924.
Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de Beaux-Arts, Orléans, 1876, no. 791, pl. II.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 226; II, no. 398; III, pl. LXXXVI.
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