Inv. F 1959
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Adam rising from a tomb and collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross; sun and moon; clouds.
Pinnacles.
Kube 1925: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France (?), 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and/or gilding: haloes, trefoil in the gable.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel (only visible from the back, must exit in the upper border).
Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.
Bibliography
Ukazatel' vystavki starinnykh khudozhestvennykh predmetov i kartin v pol'zu uchrezhdenii, sostoiashchikh pod pokrovitel'stvom ee i. v. vel. kniagini Marii Pavlovny (Saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 14 (?), p. 100.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1925), no. 80.
Srednevekovoe prikladnoe iskusstvo Zapadnoi Evropy iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha v g. Sankt-Peterburge: kratkii katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Vyborg, Vyborg Historico-architectural and Fine Arts Museum, 1993, no. 45.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 73.
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