Crucifixion with thieves; angels holding the Sun and the Moon; rugged cross; swooning Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist and Holy Women; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; crowd of onlookers and soldiers; castle.Niches with angels; angel praying; angel crying.
Carved inscription: 'Cest la Passion Nostre Seigneur'.
Pinnacles. Tracery. Pointed trefoils in the gables. Bands of pierced quatrefoils.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
No evidence of hinges.
Reverse
Label with handwritten inscription: 'Cabinet Lambert. Installation provisoire'.
Provenance
Collection of Jacques-Amédée Lambert: his bequest to the Museum in 1850.
Bibliography
A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, (1878), I, p. 288.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 214, 323, 324, 326; II, no. 862; III, pl. CLVI.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 118-119, fig. 16a-b).
On Jacques-Amédée Lambert, see: J.-F. Garmier, 'Le Goût du Moyen Âge chez les collectionneurs lyonnais du XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art 47 (1980), p. 57 (where he is erroneously called Jacques-Antoine).
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