Inv. F 2757
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing the shawm.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany, end of the 14th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth, with some dry pieces of ivory flaking off.
Object Condition
Hole in each corner of the panel and in the upper corners of the lower register. Worn. Vertical crack in the centre.
Provenance
Collection of Counts Shuvalov, Saint Petersburg; collection of the Shuvalov House-Museum, Leningrad; transferred to the Hermitage in 1924.
Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 124.
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