Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as part of the binding of a book (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as part of the binding of a book (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as part of the binding of a book (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Worn.
Several holes.

Comments
The panel has been reused on the cover of a Breviary for the use of Xanten, made for the Collegiate Church [Stiftskirche] of St. Victor in Vetera Castra, Xanten, in Northern Germant, north of Cologne (made in the Lower Rhineland, possibly Xanten, mid 15th century).

Provenance
Christie's, London, 29 June 1994, lot 35.

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