Inv. 1949.170
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; angels crying.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.
Randall 1993: Mosan or Rhenish, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Object Condition
Missing: nose of John the Evangelist.
Provenance
Collection of Mrs. Rodier Rampson (at the time of the 1857 Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester). Collection of R. W. M. Walker, London (in 1945). Collection of H. Blairman and Son, London. Joseph Brummer collection, New York: sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 May 1949, lot 673, to the Wadsworth Atheneum thanks to the Harford Foundation for Public Giving.
Bibliography
Religious Art: the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1950, pl. 19 and pl. VI.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 129.
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