Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Beaded border.
Randall 1993: French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Not visible: the piece is backed with a wooden panel.
Object Condition
Broken in two pieces which have been kept together thanks to a frame.
Provenance
Bought from Mathias Komor, New York, in 1965, by the Kresge Art Center; incorporated into the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum collection spring 2012.
Bibliography
R. Rough, 'A Gothic Ivory in the Michigan State University Art Collection', in Kresge Art Center Bulletin 1, no. 7 (April 1968), pp. 69-72.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 130.
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