Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin holding an open book; saint Peter holding a key and a book; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a martyr's palm and a broken wheel; rugged cross.
Flamboyant tracery. Crosshatched background.
Museum's opinion 2012: Netherlands (South), 1400-1425.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (architectural details), blue (cloak), red (cloak, architecture), green (background).
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges chamfered.
Label with printed '3097'. Illegible inscriptions, in ink and engraved.
Provenance
Probably collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 301 (measurements and description correspond). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by J. Breck and M. Rogers (New York, 1929), 2nd ed., p. 118.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 140.
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