Deposition; Virgin in prayer supported by saint John the Evangelist; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint Mary Magdalene embracing the foot of the cross; sun and moon; Holy Women praying.
Lowden 2008: Northern France or Flanders, c. 1400-1420.
Museum's opinion 2008: French (probably Paris), 1410-1420.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1400-1410.
Attribution
Style of the Rohan Master
Polychromy - Gilding
Parchment painted blue, green used for the ivory ground. Traces of gilding.
Reverse
Flat.
Comments
More than fifty such roundels have survived (see for example London, Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no. 605-1902). Some of these roundels were originally mounted in sequence on reliquaries.
Provenance
Thomson collection, Toronto: Bought through H. S. Wellby Ltd., from Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1987, lot 263; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.
Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 38.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 457 (no. 10), in relation to no. 157.
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