Register 1: Crucifixion; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers.
Register 2: Martyrdom of saint Thomas Becket.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: left side of the tablet.
The right edge is trimmed.
Large hole above the cross for attachment to other tablets.
Provenance
Collection of Robert H. Tannahill (bought in Florence): given by him to the Institute in 1943.
Bibliography
The Seventh Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928, no. 57.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 121.
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