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Relief (appliqué; fragment) (Front)

Relief (appliqué; fragment) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 60mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist; saint Mary Magdalene embracing the foot of the cross; soldiers on horseback.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Italian, c. 1300.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: cross with crucified Christ.

Provenance
Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne. Blumka Gallery and Julius Böhler (Collecting Treasures of the Past. The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-11 February 2000, no. 11); private collection, London (bought, January 2000, from Blumka, New York).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.44.


Image

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