Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker; sun and moon.
Medallions enclosing trefoils in the spandrels. Beaded border.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on left side.

Object Condition
Broken near the upper hinge. Worn. Cracks.

Provenance
Seligmann sale, Paris, 16 March 1914, lot 41. Collection of Raoul Heilbronner: sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22-23 June 1921, lot 57 to George R. Harding; bought by Henry Walters from George R. Harding in London in 1921; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 303.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), pl. XXXVIIIc.

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