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Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Pl 23:5

Ivory

Height: 72mm
Width: 50mm

Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0605

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century.
Jülich 2007: France, end of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Break at the base of the cross. Numerous holes along the left side of the panel and one central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Marx: Marx bequest to the Museum in 1919.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 222; II, no. 605.
Kunstschätze aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 1948), no. 30.
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 45.


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