Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.
Destève 1906: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: North French, 1340-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.
Object Condition
Hole in the centre in the upper border, probably for hanging. Cracked. The face of Christ seems to have been recarved (see early photograph and Koechlin's comment in 1924 noting that Christ's face was damaged).
Provenance
Collection of Mortimer Schiff, Paris: his sale, Leman and Mannheim, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-17 March 1905, lot 270. Claudius Côte collection, Lyon (at least 1906-1924). Bought from Leopold Blumka, New York, in 1972.
Bibliography
T. Destève, 'La Collection de M. Claudius Côte', in Les Arts 59 (November 1906), pp. 28-32 (p. 31).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 201, 205; II, no. 420.
Guide to the Collections: Highlights from the Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, 1980), p. 73.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 79.
Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum (Indianapolis, 2007), pp. 228-229.
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