Saint John the Evangelist and onlookers (probably part of a Crucifixion); book; sword.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France, last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Detroit 1997: early 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Northern France, England or Southern Netherlands (Flanders)(?), 14th or 15th century (?).
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat with some scoring.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand of saint John the Evangelist; left foot of onlooker.
Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris: sold, 1911, to J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (1911-1913); Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 49-62.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 306.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 114. fig. 7).
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 85.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 612-13, in relation to no. 189.
C. T. Little , ‘The Art of Gothic Ivories: Studies at the Crossroads,’ in The Sculpture Journal 23.1 (2014), pp. 13-29, fig. 9.
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