Coronation of the Virgin; musician angels (rebec; portable organ; lute; harp; trumpet drum; flute).
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Northern Italy (Venice?), late 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Italy (probably Venice), late 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: North Italian (Venice), c. 1360-1370.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with handwritten inscriptions: 'S 103' and 'K 491 A'.
Object Condition
Three holes in the left border and one in the upper border.
Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Acquired by the Cloisters in 1971.
Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.103.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, 1964, no. 766, p. 84, ill. 72.
P. Bloch et al., 'Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 31 (1965), p. 29.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. One hundred first Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1970, through June 30, 1971 (1971), p. 21, mentioned as purchase.
Medieval Art from Late Antique through Late Gothic from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibition catalogue, Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Leningrad, The Hermitage, 1990, cat. 60.
P. Williamson, 'Avori italiani e avori francesi', in Il Gotico europeo in Italia (Naples, 1994), pp. 293, 298, n. 13.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 106.
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