Inv. 654
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the sun and moon; angels crying; Adam collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross.
Medallions containing quatrefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels. Border of dentils.
Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, mid 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: Paris (?), last quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Rhineland (Mainz?) (Kremsmünster style), c. 1375-1400.
Attribution
Style of the Kremsmünster Master.
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Object Condition
Missing: Part of the background to the right of the Virgin.
Cracks and holes.
Provenance
Acquired in 1883 in Munich.
Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 113, pl. XXX.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 45, pl. 45.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 181, 302, 304; II, no. 832; III, pl. CXLVIII.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 47.
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