Inv. B 144
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; rugged cross; two angels collecting the blood of Christ in chalices; saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm; saint Catherine of Alexandria with martyr's palm and sword; saint Mary Magdalene (?) seated at the foot of the cross.
Foliated decoration; flowers.
Museum's opinion 2013: Upper Rhineland, 1st half of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: gold (robes; crowns; chalices; haloes), green (foliage; ground; palms), blue (robes), red (blood; frame).
Comments
This medallion is kept in a circular leather box with gold decoration which was made for the ivory in Italy in the 18th century.
Provenance
Private collection, Rome (according to a letter of 3 March 1946 from W. I. Volbach). Collection of Ernest Brummer (bought in Paris in 1950): his sale, Galerie Koller and Spink and Son, Zürich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 81.
Bibliography
A. Legner, 'Ein spätgotisches Elfenbeinmedaillon', in Museen der Stadt Köln, Bulletin 1 (1980), pp. 1778-1779.
Das Mittelalter in 111 Meisterwerken, ed. by H. Westermann-Angerhausen and D. Täube, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Museum Schnütgen, 2003, p. 151 (with ill.).
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