Christ before Pilate; soldiers; belts; dagger; swords.
Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: 19th century
Vienna 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France, last quarter of the 18th century or 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat.
Crosshatching and notches. Inscription in red ink: '9967'.
Object Condition
Missing: nose of the soldier on the right.
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 110. Collection of Adolph Moritz List (b. 1861, d. 1938), Magdeburg. Purchased by the museum from Dr. Johannes Jantzen, Vienna in 1944.
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 75 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, n. on pp. 306-308.
Katalog der Sammlung für Plastik und Kunstgewerbe (Vienna, 1964), I. Mittelalter, no. 15.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 114, fig. 5).
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