Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Back)

Wing, left
Saint Anthony, holding a bell and a tau staff; saint John the Baptist holding a scroll; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and crown; saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment pot.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; onlooker with a staff.

Witte 1912: Saxony (?), 16th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Italian, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing ring (?) hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Schnütgen (b. 1843, d. 1918), who had bought it from an art dealer in Magdeburg region (Schnütgen donated his collection to the city of Cologne in 1906 and the first Schnütgen Museum opened in 1910).

Bibliography
F. Witte, Die Skulpturen der Sammlung Schnütgen in Cöln (Berlin, 1912), pl. 84, p. 94, no. 11.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 179, fig. 21].

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