Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Redknap 2007 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), c. 1340-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
No traces.
Reverse
Flat.
Object Condition
Missing: chip in the lower border.
The leaf is broken in three different pieces which have been glued back together.
Comments
The left wing of this diptych is now in the Walker Art Gallery (Inv. 53.114.277). The pairing was made in 2005 by Dr Mark Redknap, Curator of Medieval & Later Archaeology at Cardiff.
Provenance
Found during the demolition of 'the old well-house' at Llandaff in 1836; purchased by the Cardiff Museum from the estate of local antiquary John Storrie in 1901.
Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 128.
M. Redknap, 'In Holy Union: Gothic ivories reunited', in British Archaeology, 95 (2007), pp. 14-15. [accessible online through the British Archaeology website: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba95/feat2.shtml; accessed November 2010].
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