Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel (probably fragment of a casket), 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnette; plaque ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel (probably fragment of a casket), 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnette; plaque ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel (probably fragment of a casket), 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnette; plaque ajourée) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.181

Ivory

Height: 51mm
Width: 71mm

Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a wheel and martyr's palm; saint Mary Magdalene or saint Clare holding an ointment pot; saint Stephen (?) holding a martyr's palm.
Pierced trefoils.

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
This piece is part of the same ensemble as Inv. 71.180, also in Baltimore. See related objects.

Provenance
Bought together with Inv. 71.180 in 1925 by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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