Gothic Ivories Project | Panels (possibly writing tablets), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire) (Front)

Left
Adoration of the Magi.
Right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Border of dentils; incised trefoils.
Openwork foliated decoration; scrolls; flowers (later).

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Wooden panel.
Handwritten inscription: 'Nr. 1416'.
Labels with handwritten inscriptions: '129', '382'.

Object Condition
Deep cracks, especially in the Adoration panel. Green stains.

Comments
The two panels have been placed side by side against a wooden background with a later ivory and/or bone framework including flower scrolls.

Provenance
Transferred from the Königliche Vereinigte Sammlungen to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in 1866.

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1387, pl. XXVIII.
H. Kehrer, Die heiligen drei Könige in Literatur und Kunst (Leipzig, 1908-1909), II, p. 163, ill. 182.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 49.

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