Crucified Christ.
Porter 1974: English, late 13th-early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: red (loincloth and wound), gold (loincloth; hair and beard).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: arms and lower legs.
Large hole in the back for attachment to the cross.
Provenance
Collection of Leila Willoughby; by descent to Primula Oliphant, Twickenham; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1966, lot 109; collection of John Hunt (b. 1900, d. 1976) and Gertrude Hunt (b. 1903, d. 1975), Limerick; now part of the Hunt Museum which opened in 1997.
Bibliography
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400, State University of New York at Binghamton, PhD 1974 (Ann Arbor, 1986: University Microfilms International), no. 38.
P. Doran, 50 Treasures from the Hunt Collection (Limerick, 1993).
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