Register 1: Crucifixion with thieves; Longinus standing in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Tracery medallions in the gables. Border of dentils.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), c. 1250-1280.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label with printed inscription: '395'.
Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner; pinnacles.
Staff of Stephaton partly broken.
Dark brown patina.
Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 35, pl. XXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 85; II, no. 49.
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (New York, 1929), 2nd ed., p. 107, illus. fig. 59.
C. R. Morey, 'Italian Gothic Ivories', in Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter (Cambridge, Mss., 1939), p. 188, no. XIII, fig. 7.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), pp. 167-169, in relation to no. 51.
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