Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd (?) holding bagpipes. Flight into Egypt. Adoration of the Magi; angel.
Register 2: Annunciation. Visitation. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas). Flagellation. Carrying of the Cross. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Deposition; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body. Entombment with the Virgin. Presentation in the temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1320-1330.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Worn.
Missing: bottom and lid.
One ivory insertion (repair).
Provenance
Collection of L. Guiraud, Paris: his sale, Drouot, Paris, 14-15 June 1956, lot 101. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964). Collecting Treasures of the Past. The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-11 February 2000, no. 16.
Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.30, p. 16.
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