Inv. ATM 965
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; soldier with a shield with a face; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with the Virgin and Holy Women; tomb decorated with arches.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils in the spandrels.
Guide 2003: Paris, c. 1380.
Ribičić-Županić 2007 and 2008: Northern France, late 14th or early 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France (Paris), c. 1380.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Object Condition
The upper right corner broke off and seems to have been replaced with a later piece of ivory.
Brown patina.
Slightly warped.
Provenance
Collection of Ante Topić Mimara (b. 1898, d. 1987): donated to the Croatian people in 1973; foundation of the museum in 1980 and opening to the public in 1987.
Bibliography
A. Ribičić-Županić, Vodič, Muzej Mimara, Zagreb (Zagreb, 1998), p. 103.
A. Ribičić-Županić, Poljubac mira, Informatica Museologica 32 (1-2) (Zagreb, 2001), pp. 170-171.
Guide Muzej Mimara, ed. by T. Lukšić (Zagreb, 2003), no. 158.
A. Ribičić-Županić, Odabrani predmeti od bjelokosti u Muzeju Mimara (Zagreb, 2007), pp. 35-36 and no. 10.
Imaginarni svijet zagonetnih predmeta od bjelokosti, kosti i rožina - The Enigmatic Imagery of Ivory, Horn, Antler and Bone Artefacts, ed. by A. Ribičić-Županić (Zagreb, 2008), no. 7.
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