Inv. 1943.60
Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles.
Rogers and Goetz 1945: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2011: Germany (Mainz?), 4th quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Style of the Kremsmünster Master (Randall 1993)
Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the right side.
Object Condition
Missing: two upper registers and right wing.
Comments
This panel originally was the lower register.
Provenance
Salomon collection, Berlin (before 1917); sold, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 15 May 1917, lot 102. Collection of Harry Fuld (d. 1932), Frankfurt (before 1932); by descent to his widow, Lucie Mayer-Fuld (née Cajzago); sold, through Raphael Stora, to the Art Institute in 1942 (Kate S. Buckingham Endowment).
Bibliography
M. Rogers and O. Goetz, The Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago, 1945), no. 51.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 149.
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