Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross; bone; rugged cross; titulus.
Brickwork or tiled roof; flamboyant tracery; crosshatched background.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels.
Randall 1993 and 1994: Dutch (Utrecht), 1440-1470.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Carved inscription: 'IHS' within a circle, on a crosshatched background.
Object Condition
Pierced with a hole at the top. Vertical crack.
Provenance
Gift of John Gellatly in 1929.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 168.
R. H. Randall, 'Dutch Ivories of the Fifteenth Century', in Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, ed. by R. Falkenburg et al., Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Zwolle, 1994), pp. 126-139 (pp. 132-134, fig. 7).
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