Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket?), 1 register, 10 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket?), 1 register, 10 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket?), 1 register, 10 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes; coffret) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 136mm
Depth: 8mm

Carrying of the Cross; man holding a hammer. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; holy women; onlookers; sword; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils. Pinnacles. Crosshatched background.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Two later drilled holes (probably for later hanging).

Comments
Two lines, incised along the top and at the bottom, cut through the frame on both ends, possibly to allow sliding the panel into an outer frame.
Probably part of the same ensemble as a panel now in the British Museum (Dalton 309).

Provenance
Collection of Ernest Brummer (bought from Donath, Paris, in 1958): his sale, Galerie Koller and Spink and Son, Zurich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 78.

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