Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel, 2 registers, 6 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

Openwork panel, 2 registers, 6 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

Openwork panel, 2 registers, 6 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ. Passion.

Repository Institution
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Cremona, Museo Civico 'Ala Ponzone'

Inv. H 8

Ivory

Height: 117mm
Width: 75mm

Register 1: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter. Flagellation; whips; fashionable dress; hanging purse.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ. Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils; borders of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with recessed areas where the rows of pierced trefoils feature. Some scoring. Pencil inscription: '8'.

Object Condition
The upper right border is cracked.

Provenance
Bequest of marquess Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone in 1842, and previously inventoried as 'Antico Inv. Ponzone XI.N, n. 89'.

Bibliography
A. Ebani, 'Raccolte artistiche diverse', in Il museo si rinnova: duecento opere e un progetto globale, ed. by I. Iotta (Milan, 1992), pp. 199-205, pp. 203-4, fig. III.109.

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