Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 855
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Destrée 1902 and Brussels 1964: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side (visible from the back). The traces of the right hand side hinges have vanished as a strip of ivory has been used to repair this side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: sun and moon, clothes, architectural details.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Provenance
Acquired from M. Hanicq in 1860.
Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 18 (1221).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 174 (in relation to no. 419).
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 283, pl. CXXVII, fig. 270.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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