Inv. AN2008.21
Koechlin 1924: French, late 15th century.
Randall 1994: Dutch (Utrecht), 1440-1470.
Warren 2014: Northern Netherlands, mid 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (ground).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Inscription: 'M 209'.
Object Condition
Crack in the upper part of the Crucifixion panel.
Left leaf warped quite severely. Small irregular repair in right edge at centre.
Provenance
Collection of Adalbert, Freiherr von Lanna (b. 1836, d. 1909), Prague: his sale, part 1, Lepke, Berlin, 9-16 November 1909, lot 211, pl. XX. Durlacher, London. Collection of W. M. de Zoete: his sale, Sotheby's, 1 April 1935, lot 98; collection of John Francis Mallett; his bequest to the Museum in 1947; Department of Western Art (WA 1947.191.209); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 330, 333; II, no. 888; III, pl. CLX.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 126.
R. Koch, 'An Ivory Diptych from the Waning Middle Ages', in Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, XVII, no. 2 (1958), pp. 60-63.
R. H. Randall, 'Dutch Ivories of the Fifteenth Century', in Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, ed. by R. Falkenburg et al., Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Zwolle, 1994), pp. 134-5, fig. 8.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Musee du Louvre, Department des Objets d’Art. Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 507.
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, p. 213.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 173.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 181.
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