Crucifixion, with sword pointing towards the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross; Two unidentified coats of arms in the spandrels (cross and lion rampant).
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Southern Germany, c. 1350-1360.
Gibson 1994: South German, 1350-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Comments
The left wing is now in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (53.114.278).
Provenance
Collection of R. Woollett, Esq.: sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 December 1957, lot 44 (with ill.). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964). Private collection (in 1994).
Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.85, p. 27.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), in relation to no. 34 (left wing), pl. XXXIVb.
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