Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Medallions containing quatrefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, last quarter of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Object Condition
Ivory cracked; broken in two, then glued back together.
Space between Christ and St John restored. Wrenching around hinges.
Missing: left hand of the Virgin, fingertips of right hand of St John.
Trace of oxidisation to the right, due to former metal hook.
Provenance
Mella collection, Munich. R. and L. Blumka collection, New York. Acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1991 from the Blondeel and Carlier gallery and Arenberg gallery (Paris and Brussels).
Bibliography
Carmen Gómez-Moreno, Medieval Art from Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum, 1968-1969, no. 78.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Acquisitions', in Revue du Louvre, 5/6, 1991, p. 83.
H.-R. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory. Gothic Carvings in North American Collections, (New York, 1993), p. 74.
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (1990-1994), exhibition catalogue, Paris, musée du Louvre, 1995, no. 23.
Un Trésor gothique: la châsse de Nivelles, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen museum and Paris, MNMA-Cluny, 1995-1996, no. 44.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 84.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 109.
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