Inv. F 2913
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's arm; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Flagellation; whips.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Leningrad 1973 [Kryzhanovskaya]: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: haloes, pattern on the background, trace of striped outfit (left hand-side executioner).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel. Minor vertical cracks.
Noses worn.
Comments
This wing is very close to the right wing of a diptych now in the Louvre (Koechlin 237).
Provenance
Boy collection, Paris; acquired for the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (no. 156) in 1883; transferred to the Hermitage in 1923.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 151, 154; II, no. 238.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 78.
L. I. Faenson, M. Y. Kryzhanovskaya, E. A. Lapkovskaya, Западноевропейская резная кость IX - XIX веков из собрания Эрмитажа: каталог выставки (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1973), no. 174.
Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Eremitage Leningrad, exhibition catalogue, Berlin-Köpenick, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1974, no. 77.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 80.
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