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Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum

M.19-1917

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 47mm
Depth: 3mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2011: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: blue and gold (spandrels), black (cross), gold (along the hem of John's cloak).

Reverse
Flat. Pasted onto a piece of cardboard. Labels recording provenance.

Object Condition
Vertical crack. Missing part of background. Glued onto a backing because it had broken into at least 5 pieces. One piece of ivory is modern, to the left of Christ's feet.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Fairfax-Murray (b. 1849, d. 1919): his bequest to the Museum in 1917.


Image

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