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

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Zürich, Swiss National Museum

AG 1318

Ivory

Height: 99 mm
Width: 52 mm
Depth: 7 mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Row of blind arches in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2013: 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges chamfered. Ink inscription: 'No. aus d. Kloster Rheinau'.

Provenance
From the Abbey of Rheinau (Canton of Zürich); endowment to the Antiquarische Gesellschaft, Zürich; transferred to the Swiss National Museum in 1891.

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