Inv. F 3203
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three hinges (?).
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: black.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Edges on the reverse cut to accommodate the later frame.
The right wing has a deep vertical crack running along the right of Christ, which has been filled with a white substance.
Repairs to the right and left borders of the left wing.
Vertical stain down the body of Christ.
Provenance
Goldschmidt collection, Frankfurt; acquired by the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts in 1879; tranferred to the Hermitage in 1926.
Bibliography
Srednevekovoe prikladnoe iskusstvo Zapadnoi Evropy iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha v g. Sankt-Peterburge: kratkii katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Vyborg, Vyborg Historico-architectural and Fine Arts Museum, 1993, no. 39.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 81.
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