Christ in Glory with Resurrection of the Dead; Christ displaying his wounds; souls rising from their tombs; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails, spear; crown of thorns); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling; two angels swinging censers in the spandrels; two more angels in the lower spandrels.
In a quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond.
Utrecht 1987: Flanders (?), last quarter of the 14th century.
Lowden 2013: Northern France, c. 1325-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Léonce Rosenberg (b. 1877, d. 1947): his sale, Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1924, lot 84. Collection of Paul R. G. Horst, Paris: Christie's, London, 28 November 1961, lot 78, pl. XIX. Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1979, lot 37. Private collection, in 1987. Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, March 2014.
Bibliography
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht... [plates volume of objects on display], Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, 1987, no. 38.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), pp. 66-67, fig. 38, in relation to no. 7.
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