Inv. F 3196
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; sword piercing Christ's chest; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; cruciform halo; sun and moon.
Beaded border. Brickwork or tiled roof.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 14th century.
Kube 1925: Germany, 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2013: Germany, late 14th century.
Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Koechlin 1924)
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Provenance
Purchased in Aachen in 1878 from a priest Boch (?) for the collection of the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (no. 129), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage between 1923 and 1925.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 302; II, no. 826 (then in the Stieglitz Museum).
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 79.
Rzemioslo artystyczne zachodniej europy od XI do XVI wieku, ze zbiorów panstwowego ermitazu w Sank Petersburgu, exhibition catalogue, Malbork, The Malbork Castle Museum, 1994, no. 45, fig. 29.
"Fraiburskii" krest i ego mir. Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo Srednikh vekov v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, 2004, no. 50.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 122.
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