Ivory;wood (frame);fabric (mount).
Swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women.; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers (from a Crucifixion scene); falchion.
Museum's opinion 2011: French or Flemish, 15th century or 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: left foot of saint John, and two feet of the onlookers.
Comments
The scenes are made of three pieces independent from the ivory frame.
This piece is possibly a 19th century carving, 17.190.269, also in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection is a possible 19th-century carving in a similar style.
Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
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