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Panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Lives of saints.

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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1904.479.

Ivory

Height: 113mm
Width: 72mm
Depth: 10.5mm
Weight: 89.7g

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; sun and moon.
Register 2: Flagellation of saint Denis (?); saint Denis thrown to the lions (?).
Borders of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat, with vertical scoring.

Comments
Copied after an original ivory in Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Inv. 1399.

Provenance
Bought from Frey in Basel in 1904.


Image

© Historisches Museum Basel. Photograph Ph. Emmel.

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