Inv. 418
Crucifixion swooning Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist and one of the Holy Women; sword piercing the Virgin's chest; three onlookers; sun and moon; clouds.
Medallions containing quatretrefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels.
Gruyer 1902: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.
Paris 1930: France, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of several missing hinges on left side (these traces probably mix original and later hinges).
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: black (pupils), red (lips, hair, architectural details).
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered. Label with inscriptions: '1001', '418', '11'.
Object Condition
Numerous holes (plugged with ivory?). Left edge indented in numerous places, seemingly for successive hinges.
Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.
Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 418.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 204- 205, 220, 223; II, no. 430.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1001.
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