Gothic Ivories Project | Rounded-top panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Rounded-top panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Rounded-top panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Front

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

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Colmar, Musée Unterlinden

Iv. 13

Ivory

Height: 145mm
Width: 75mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm.
Incised trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 2nd quarter of 14th century (c. 1330?)(?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth and curved. Blue and white label with inscription: '683'. Modern inscription: 'Musee d'unterlinden. Colmar. Collection Fleischhauer. No. 683'.

Provenance
Collection of Johann Frey (b. 1813, d. 1865), art dealer, Zürich; bought on 16 April 1885 by Edmond Fleischhauer (b. 1812, d. 1896), Colmar (no. 683); bequeathed to the museum with the rest of his collection in 1896.

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