Inv. MA 2019
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils. Crosshatched background.
Koechlin 1924: France, 15th century.
Berliner 1926: France, c. 1400.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Richter 2003: French, c. 1450 (?)
Museum's opinion 2014: France, c. 1400.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered. The handle which was originally set into a chamfered slot in the back has been lost. Handwritten inscription: 'Nr. 1406'.
Label with printed inscription: '2019'.
Object Condition
Surface damage.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel (probably for hanging), closed with an ivory plug.
Provenance
Collection of Andreas Ulrich Mayr (b. 1732, d. 1802), councillor and chaplain at the court of the Regensburg prince-bishops (Regensburger Fürstbischöflichen Rat und Hofkaplan): his sale, 1803, Regensburg, lot 180 (Verzeichniss einer auserlesenen Sammlung von Elfenbein-Arbeiten welche weil. S.T. Herr Andreas Udalrich Mayr hinterlassen hat, Regensburg, 1803, lot 180); acquired for the royal collections; transferred from the Königliche Vereinigte Sammlungen to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich in 1866.
Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1386, pl. XXVI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 330; II, no. 881.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 59.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 135 n. 58).
J. Thinesse, Appendix zum Elfenbeinkatalog Rudolf Berliners, unpublished MA dissertation, Munich, 1977 (Typescript), p. 39.
T. Richter, Paxtafeln und Pacificalia, Studien zu Form, Ikonographie und liturgischem Gebrauch (Weimar, 2003), no. 93.
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