Inv. 1949.169
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.
Randall 1993 and Rowe 2011: Mosan or Rhenish, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Object Condition
Holes drilled for mounting, two in the central arch and one at the foot of the cross.
Provenance
Joseph Brummer collection, New York: sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 May 1949, lot 682, to the Wadsworth Atheneum thanks to the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 128.
N. Rowe, 'Pocket Crucifixions: Jesus, Jews, and Ownership in Fourteenth-Century Ivories', in Studies in Iconography 32 (2011), pp. 81-120 (p. 86, fig. 4).
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