Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair and decorative pattern along the hems); green (crown of thorns); red (blood).

Object Condition
Missing: arms of Christ.

Provenance
Schwartz collection, Mönchengladbach. Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne: acquired in 1972 by the Museum.

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, 'Ein Kruzifix aus Walroßzahn', in Festchrift für Erich Meyer zum 60. Geburtstag (Hamburg, 1959), pp. 84-87 (p. 87).
P. Thoby, Le Crucifix des origines au Concile de Trente. Étude iconographique. Supplément (Nantes, 1963), p. 29, pl. CCXI.
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. Schnitzler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 16.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 37.
S. M. Guérin, 'Tears of Compunction': French Gothic Ivories in Devotional Practice (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, 2009), pp. 168-169, fig. 3-46.