Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Randall 1993: Mosan, 4th quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed for wax.
Object Condition
The left border has been trimmed.
Provenance
Achillito Chiesa, Milan and New York: his sale, American Art Association, New York; 16-17 April 1926 (Part III), lot 323; Joseph Brummer (dealer), New York; Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit (purchased from Brummer on 24 November 1926); Gift of Robert H. Tannahill in 1943.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 153.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 134.
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