Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; baiser de paix) (Front)

Panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; baiser de paix) (Front)

Panel (possibly a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum

M1967.72

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 86mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.

Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: German (Cologne?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Lower left corner and middle of the left border damaged, possibly resulting from burial. Off-centre hole at the top.

Provenance
Bought in 1967 thanks to the Acquisition Fund.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 131.

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