Inv. 71.249
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with Holy Women.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.
Incised trefoils.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: German (Westphalia?), 1400-1420.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Traces of having had a metal frame.
Broken at the upper left corner (repaired).
Comments
According to Randall (1985), possibly half of a diptych which was mounted in silver, or was used as a pax.
Provenance
Edouard Aynard collection, Lyon: sold, Paris, 1 December 1913, lot 179. Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris in 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 316.
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