Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; saint John the Evangelist.
Porter 1986: English, 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French, about 1320-30.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: blue and gold.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: arms of the cross; part of the left foot of the man with pincers (Nicodemus).
Worn.
Comments
Underside crosshatched and pierced with two later holes for mounting.
Provenance
Purchased from Alfred Spero in 1940 (bought from a small private collection in the West of England).
Bibliography
M. Longhurst, 'Some war-time additions to the ivory collections at South Kensington', in Burlington Magazine 79 (1941), p. 22.
The Bible in Britain. An Exhibition in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, 1961.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 44, pp. 111-112.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 153.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 35.
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