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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.clemusart.com

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art

1930.660

Ivory

Height: 157mm
Width: 32mm

Standing saint John the Evangelist (probably part of a Crucifixion group).

Randall 1993: Moravian?, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Germany, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Reverse
Reverse minimally modeled; surface covered with hatched lines.

Provenance
Given to the Cleveland Museum of Art by M. and R. Stora in 1930.

Bibliography
Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 50 (September 1963), no. 26, p. 204.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 17.

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