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

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

BK-VBR-163

Ivory;metal (later ring for suspension)

Height: 88mm
Width: 48mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, end of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.Pencil inscription: 'v Brakell'. Green inscription: 'VII Z'.

Provenance
Collection of F. G. S. van Brakell tot den Brakell, Arnhem: bequeathed by him to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague in 1878; transferred to Amsterdam in 1883.

Bibliography
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), no. 26.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), no. 20.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 174, in relation to no. 419.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), no. 778.


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