Inv. 952.52.4
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Koechlin 1912: mid-14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Lorraine), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Unusual silver strap hinges with rounded ends, once attached to the ivory with two rivets have left silhouettes on the reverse (Randall 1993).
Object Condition
Missing: upper left corner; vessel held by the left hand side king. Upper and lower edges chipped. Hole in the right hand of Christ. Worn.
Provenance
Collection of Mortimer Schiff, Paris: his sale, Leman and Mannheim, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-17 March 1905, lot 272. Emile Baboin collection, Lyon (at least 1912-1924). Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1952.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 14.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 328.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 105.
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