Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment), 1 register (plaquette) (Front)

Panel (fragment), 1 register (plaquette) (Front)

Panel (fragment), 1 register (plaquette) (Front)

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Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 707

Ivory

Height: 75mm
Width: 45mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist and Holy Women; crowd of onlookers; landscape.

Vöge 1900: Netherlandish, c. 1500.
Volbach 1923: Netherlands, c. 1480.
Museum's opinion 2010: Netherlands, c. 1480.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and crosshatched. Traces of glue.

Object Condition
The upper corners seem to have been cut.

Provenance
Nagler collection, Berlin; acquired by the Kunstkammer in 1835.

Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (1900), no. 180.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 57, pl. 62.

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