Inv. Pl.O. 3014
Crucified Christ.
Stafski 1965: Northern French, c. 1300.
Paris 1998: Paris, c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: arms of Christ; a few toes (some replaced).
Ivory cracked; hole in the back and on the head (possibly for a later halo); minor chips and burns on the loincloth.
Provenance
Bought from an art dealer in New York in 1965.
Bibliography
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), pp. 242-244, no. 220.
E. Steingräber, 'Ein hochgotisches Elfenbein-Kruzifix', in Festschrift Klaus Lankheit zum 20. Mai 1973, ed. by W. Hartmann (Cologne, 1973), p. 127.
R. Kahsnitz, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg Führer (Munich, 1977), no. 66.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 206 (in relation to no. 209).
Un Trésor gothique: la châsse de Nivelles, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen museum and Paris, MNMA-Cluny, 1995-1996, no. 42.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 87 (D. Gaborit-Chopin).
Mittelalter. Kunst und Kultur von der Spätantike bis zum 15. Jahrhundert, ed. by G. U. Großmann (Nuremberg, 2007), pp. 125-137 (pp. 134-135), 404, no. 203, fig. 122.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 28.
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