Inv. ABM bi763
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross; saint Mary Magdalene embracing the foot of the cross; onlookers including soldiers.
Hatched background. Columns. Foliated decoration.
Catalogus 1962: Germany, 1st quarter of the 16th century.
Koekkoek 1987: Germany or Flanders (?), early 16th century (?).
Scholten 2004: Netherlands or Germany, c. 1450.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Curved. Smooth. Ivory handle set into a chamfered slot.
Provenance
Given to the convent by Vicar H. Stiphout from Utrecht (unknown date).
Bibliography
Catalogus Beeldhouwkunst in het Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Utrecht (Utrecht, 1962), no. 94.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht... [plates volume of objects on display], Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, 1987, no. 70.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), no. 19.
F. Scholten, 'Nederlandse ivoren pax uit de late middeleeuwen', in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 52 (2004), no. 1, pp. 3-23 (p. 6, fig. 3).
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 603-4, in relation to no. 183.
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