Carrying of the Cross; man brandishing a club; soldiers; hanging purse; landscape; halberd; castle.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: Lower Rhenish or Flemish (Antwerp?), 1480-1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.
Reverse
Silver frame engraved with a coat of arms with crest and mantling, foliated decoration, crown of thorns with the three nails on the back.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 17 April 1969, lot 4. Bought from Leopold Blumka, New York in 1971, thanks to the J. H. Wade Fund.
Bibliography
W. D. Wixom, 'Twelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury', in the Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 59 (1972), p. 108a, figs. 48 and 59.
'The Year in Review 1971', in Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin (January 1972), pp. 8 and 41.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 174.
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