Inv. B 62
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; rugged cross.
Crosshatched background; Flamboyant tracery; tiled roof or brickwork.
Witte 1912: France, c. 1500.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.
Randall 1994: Dutch (Utrecht), 1440-1470.
Richter 2003: Netherlands or Northern France, c. 1480-1490.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Curved. Slot for a missing handle, with two visible mounting holes.
Object Condition
Several damaged areas on the front of the piece.
Missing: central part of the upper border.
Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Bordeaux (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).
Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 94, pl. 84, no. 13.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 896.
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. 126-139 (p. 136).
T. Richter, Paxtafeln und Pacificalia, Studien zu Form, Ikonographie und liturgischem Gebrauch (Weimar, 2003), no. 59.
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