Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Trefoils containing protruding cones in the spandrels. Pinnacles.
Randall 1993: North French, 1340-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding on the frame.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered. Traces of a faded label.
Object Condition
The hinge miters have been filled. Modern transverse metal pin inserted in the centre of the base.
The panel broke in two pieces which have been glued back together.
Missing: several parts of the background (repaired; more visible from the back).
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Léonce Rosenberg (b. 1877, d. 1947): his sale, Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1924, lot 86. Henry Daguerre, art dealer, Paris (Daguerre, Collection d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, s.d., ill.). Bought from Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York, in 1937 (Gift of J. W. McConnell).
Bibliography
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 1977), p. 52, fig. 32.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 80 (error in the provenance).
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