Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Detail)

Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Sun and Moon on either side of the cross under the arch; clouds.
Pinnacles; pointed trefoils.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Sprinz 1925: Germany, 14th century.
Schenkluhn 1987 and Museum's opinion 2012: France, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Remains of old labels. Inscription: '5950', corresponding to the old inventory number in the Sigmaringen Collection.

Object Condition
Two small holes in the upper part of the panel (visible from the back).

Provenance
Acquired in 1928 from the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen collection (Fürstlich Hohenzollernsche Sammlung).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 281, 282; II, no. 778.
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollernschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), p. 8, no. 17, fig. 7.
Kurzes Verzeichnis der im Städelschen Kunstinstitut ausgestellten Sigmaringer Sammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Kunstinstitut, 1928, p. 34, no. 268.
E. Solms-Laubach, Bericht: Zur Ausstellung von Neu-Erwerbungen der Städtischen Skulpturensammlung in Liebieghaus, Oberrheinische Kunst 4 (1929-1930).
Städtische Galerie zu Frankfurt am Main. Skulpturensammlung im Liebieghaus. Kurzes Verzeichnis der Bildwerke (Frankfurt am Main, 1930), p. 113, no. 911.
C. R. Morey, 'A Group of Gothic Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery', in Art Bulletin, 18 (1936), p. 209.
A. Legner, Gotische Bildwerke aus dem Liebieghaus (Frankfurt am Main, 1967), no. 7.
W. Schenkluhn, Liebieghaus - Museum Alter Plastik. Nachantike Kleinplastische Bildwerke, vol. I: Mittelalter. 11. Jahrhundert bis 1530/40 (Melsungen, 1987), no. 37, pp. 75-76.

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