Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 8530 (lost)

Ivory

Height: 88mm
Width: 55mm

Martyrdom of saint Thomas Becket; hand of God; two soldiers in armour; soldier cutting saint Thomas's throat with his sword; cleric holding a cross; altar; chalice.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels and gables.

Koechlin Number: 0529quater

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: France, beginning of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Figdor collection, Vienna (by 1924); acquired by the Museum in 1935; undocumented after 7 April 1945.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 198, 217; II, no. 529quater.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 66.

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