Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angel holding the moon.
Pinnacles.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, c. 1325-1350.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French, c. 1330-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding (canopy and architecture) and polychromy: brown (background, architecture, books, hair), green (canopy).
Reverse
Flat. Crosshatching in the centre. The pinnacles are carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand of angel holding the sun; upper part of the pinnacles.
Hole in the gable (plugged).
Provenance
Collection of Major Rhode Hawkins (b. 1821, d. 1884). British Museum, purchased through Christie's, 1885.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 275.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 220; II, no. 558.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 136.
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