Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel (probably fragment of a casket), 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaque ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel (probably fragment of a casket), 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaque ajourée) (Front)

Openwork panel (probably fragment of a casket), 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaque ajourée) (Front)

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.180

Ivory

Height: 52mm
Width: 71mm

Crucifixion; Virgin with Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pierced trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2010: France, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
This piece is part of the same ensemble as Inv. 71.181, also in Baltimore. See related objects.

Provenance
Bought together with 71.181 in 1925 by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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