Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Pointed trefoils.
Swarzenski 1929: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: North French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Provenance
Passavant-Gontard collection, Frankfurt am Main, in 1929: sale, Berlin, 5 December 1929. Goldschmidt Gallery, Frankfurt; Joseph Brummer collection, New York: bought, Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 April 1949, lot 650 by the Museum thanks to the R. T. Miller Fund.
Bibliography
G. Swarzenski, Sammlung R. von Passavant-Gontard (Frankfurt, 1929), no. 71.
Memorial Art Gallery Handbook (Rochester, 1961), p. 51.
Medieval Art in Upstate New York, ed. by P. Weiss, exhibition catalogue, Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art, 1974, p. 32, fig. 18 and front cover.
D. Sutton, Treasures from Rochester (Rochester, 1977), p. 11.
M. Sharp Young, 'Letter from the U.S.A.: Treasures from Rochester', in Apollo (April 1977), pp. 302-304, fig. 105 (tbc).
D. A. Walsh, 'Notes on the Iconography of a Fourteenth-Century Ivory', in Porticus (1984), p. 7, figs. 1-7.
S. P. Dodge, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (New York, 1988), p. 52.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 114.
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