Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.216

Bone

Height: 93mm
Width: 46mm

Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); chalice; three apostles asleep.
Crosshatched background; brickwork or tiled roof.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish, 1440-1470.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces gilding and polychromy: red, blue and golt.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 360.

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