Inv. 2089 (inv. Soprintendenza 244)
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Sun and Moon.
Male kneeling figure in donor position.
Naples 1981: Northern France, end of 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Reverse divided into 7 compartments, one being circular. The circular recess is deeper than the other compartments. Traces of wax.
Object Condition
Seven holes along the left side. The drilled hole in the upper part of the panel has caused it to crack. Worn. Cracked.
Provenance
Collection of Placido de Sangro, Duke of Martina (b. 1829, d. 1891) (collection assembled in the 2nd half of the 19th century): given by his heirs to the city of Naples in 1911; housed at the Villa Floridiana since 1931.
Bibliography
A. O. Quintavalle, 'Medioevo ignorato. Avori gotici nelle pubbliche collezioni napoletane', in Crisopoli (1934), pp. 289-290, fig. 10.
Medioevo e produzione artistica di serie. Smalti di Limoges e avori gotici in Campania, ed. by P. Giusti, P. Leone de Castris, exhibition catalogue, Naples, Museo Duca di Martina, 1981, no. II.9.
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