Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; two angels holding the sun and the moon; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Beaded border.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: Mosan, 1340-1360.
Museum's opinion 2010: Mosan, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Provenance
Collection of Mortimer Schiff, Paris: his sale, Leman and Mannheim, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-17 March 1905, lot 271 (with ill.). Emile Baboin collection, Lyons. Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1951 (purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyons, 1912), no. 7.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 208, 220; II, no. 609.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 86.
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