Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 15

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 65mm
Depth: 10mm

Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Incised trefoils.

Witte 1912: Germany, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Germany, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had acquired it in the Lower Rhineland (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 93, pl. 83, no. 9.

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