Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; clouds.
Pointed trefoil in the gable. Pinnacles.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Giusti 1999: French (Paris), 2nd quarter of 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French, c. 1330-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat, with some crosshatching on the lower part of the cross.
Object Condition
Missing: finial and two pinnacles (later replacements).
It may be that the panel was not originally in openwork but had its background later removed (Williamson, see Giusti 1999).
Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: sale, Paris, 11 May 1908, lot 473 (purchased by Bouet). Ernest Brummer collection (bought by him at the Muenze et al. sale at Parke-Bernet in 1946): his sale, Galerie Koller and Spink and Son, Zürich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 80.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 205; II, no. 428.
P. Giusti in Museo Civico Amedeo Lia: Sculture e oggetti d'arte (I cataloghi del Museo Civico Amedeo Lia), ed. by M. Ratti and A. Marmori (La Spezia, 1999), no. 2.17.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 136.
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