Gothic Ivories Project | Corpus; known as the 'Kirkton of Craig Crucifix Figure' (Front)

Corpus; known as the 'Kirkton of Craig Crucifix Figure' (Front)

Corpus; known as the 'Kirkton of Craig Crucifix Figure' (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland

Inv. KE 13

Bone

Height: 100mm
Width: 40mm
Depth: 20mm

Crucified Christ; crown of thorns.

Glenn 2003: Scotland, late 14th or early 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: arms and legs.
Discoloured.

Provenance
Found (dug up) by Robert Gourlay in his garden, at Kirkton of Craig, Montrose, Angus, around 1890; donated to the Museum by his daughter, Miss K. D. Gourlay, in 1928.

Bibliography
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland LXII (1928), p. 83.
V. Glenn, Romanesque and Gothic Decorative Metalwork and Ivory Carvings in the Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 185-186, no. L8.

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