Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Museum's opinion 2011: East French or Rhenish, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular. This indicates that this panel originally was part of a set of writing tablets. Some scoring and traces of glue.
Round label with inscription: 'Exportateur Paris Douane Centrale'.
Handwritten inscription 'PNS'.
Object Condition
Worn.
Provenance
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Levy Hermanos; gift of Mr and Mrs Maxime Levy Hermanos, 1979.
Bibliography
Mirror of the Medieval World, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, no. 160, p. 136.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 84, fig. 43, in relation to no. 12.
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