Inv. B 17
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm; swaddled Christ.
Incised trefoils.
Witte 1912: Germany, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French or German in a French style, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Germany, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Hole on either side in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Kleve (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).
Bibliography
A. Schnütgen, 'Zehn Elfenbeinreliefs des XIV. und XV. Jahrhunderts', in Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst 21-22 (1908), p. 258, pl. X, no. 4.
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), p. 93, pl. 83, no. 8.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 176-178; II, no. 313.
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