Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Nineteen drilled holes, nine of which have been filled with an ivory-like material. Numerous cracks. The columns have been re-carved and pigmented to match the rest of the panel. Some of the original carving was altered when the columns were re-carved.

Comments
The spears falling from the sky actually belong to the perilous bed episode.

Provenance
Trivulzio collection, Milan (before 1897, until at least 1924). Collection of Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt-am-Main (until 1933) and Basel: sold, Sotheby's, Parke Bernet, London, 22 June 1978, lot 290; bought by the museum thanks to the John L. Severance Fund.

Bibliography
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R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 1288.
W. Hugelshofer, 'Aus Einer Basler Privatsammlung', in DU 12 (1951), p. 58, repr. pp. 52-53.
W. D. Wixom, 'Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection', in Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1979), pp. 86-151 (pp. 110-126).
Deutsche Literatur im Mittelalter: Kontakte und Perspektiven. Hugo Kuhn zum Gedenken, ed. by C. Cormeau (Stuttgart, 1979), pp. 494-495, fig. 28.
'The Year in Review 1978', in Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin (1979), pp. 11, 42.
E. W. Kleinbauer, 'Recent Major Acquisitions of Medieval Art by American Museums', in Gesta 19/1 (1980), pp. 71-72.
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R. Martin Nagy, Textiles in the Daily Life of the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985, no. 24, pp. 47-48 and 60.
Ivory: An International History and Illustrated Survey (New York, 1987), p. 106.
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M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), p. 98.
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S. N. Fliegel, Arms and Armor (Cleveland, 2007), p. 68.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 227.