Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (upper part of the loincloth).

Reverse
Flat, with crosshatching.

Object Condition
Missing: both arms (two wooden dowels remain), feet.
Horizontal gash in the centre of Christ's chest.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart (b. 1875, d. 1919), London: sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 21 April 1920, lot 404; acquired by the museum through Durlacher Brothers at this sale.

Bibliography
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 32, pl. XXX.
P. Thoby, Le Crucifix des origines au Concile de Trente: étude iconographique (Nantes, 1959), p. 174.
H. P. Hilger, 'Das spätgotische Reliquienkreuz der Stiftskirche in Kleve' in Pantheon 26 (1968), p. 107, fig. 6.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 27.