Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (lid of box for goldsmith scales and weights), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; boîte à poids et à balance) (Front)

Panel (lid of box for goldsmith scales and weights), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; boîte à poids et à balance) (Front)

Panel (lid of box for goldsmith scales and weights), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; boîte à poids et à balance) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 98mm
Width: 55mm
Depth: 10mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and two Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Williamson 2005: Probably German (Lower Rhine), c. 1350-1375.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse with compartments for the weights and scale.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 25 April 1994, lot 103. Les Enluminures, Paris, September 1998, lot 16; Private collection, London, in 2010 (bought from Les Enluminures, Paris, 23 January 2004).

Bibliography
P. Williamson, Medieval and Later Treasures from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005, no. 37.

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