Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.catharijneconvent.nl

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Utrecht, Catharijneconvent

Inv. ABM bi789

Ivory

Height: 73mm
Width: 43mm
Depth: 3mm
Weight: 14g

Saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; standing Virgin and Child; saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat and staff.
Pointed trefoils.

Catalogus 1962: France, c. 1400.
Koekkoek 1987: c. 1400, Southern Germany (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Circular recess on the reverse. Crosshatching. Pierced by holes.

Object Condition
Hole under the central arch and to the right of the Virgin.

Provenance
Given in 1955 to the convent by M. and Mrs W. Arntz-Klep from Wassenaar.

Bibliography
Catalogus Beeldhouwkunst in het Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Utrecht (Utrecht, 1962), no. 41.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), no. 13.

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