Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy women; Saint John the Evangelist; onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels and tympana. Border of dentils.
Ozenfant 1887: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Guide 1957: France, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French or Mosan, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
De Vicq label (no. 253, cat. 40). 1912 inventory label. 1950s inventory label.
Object Condition
Vertical crack across the right-hand side arch.
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Collection of Jules de Vicq, Lille (no. 253): given by him to the Museum on 1881.
Bibliography
A. Ozenfant, Catalogue de la Collection d'objets d'art et de curiosité composant le Musée Jules de Vicq (Lille, 1887), no. 40.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 223-223; II, no. 606.
Musée de Lille : Guide de la Section des Objets d'art (Paris, 1957), p. 18.
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