Inv. Pl 36:89
Two Holy Women (part of the Three Holy Women at the tomb); ointment pot.
Westwood 1876: Germany, 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France, last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Jülich 2007: England (?), 2nd half of 14th century (?).
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat. Crosshatching and notches. Fragment of a paper label with the number 84. Blue and white label with inscription: '719'.
Object Condition
Two drill holes (on the central left side and the upper right side; probably original) which have been partly plugged with bone and replaced by two slightly shifted modern drill holes; crack on the upper right side due to the modern drill hole.
Missing: part of the face of the holy woman on the left hand side.
Provenance
Probably from the collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 735 ('58.237).
F. Back, Großherzoglich Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Führer durch die kunst- und historischen Sammlungen (Darmstadt, 1908), p. 46.
Kunstschätze aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 1948), no. 31.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 117-118, fig. 15).
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 43.
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