Register 1: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; sword.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body) with the Virgin praying; saint John the Evangelist; tomb decorated with pierced trefoils.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Germany (Meuse or Rhine), 1375-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: architecture, background.
Reverse
Reverse divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular.
Label with inscription 'A. Trapnell, No 245 Page 146'. Label with printed inscription '245'.
Object Condition
Front surface worn in its uppermost parts, particularly the lower scene. Crosshatching along the left edge of the panel (possibly for applicationof a parchment spine).
Extensive and deliberate abrasion to the back has removed all original raised borders.
Provenance
Rollin and Feuardent sale, 8 May 1907, lot 10. G. R. H. collection XIX, lot 1944; XX, lot 933. Collection of S. Richards, 15 August 1907. Collection of Alfred Trapnell of Bristol and Bournemouth (b. 1838, d. 1917), before 1917: Trapnell sale, Christie's, London, 18 March 1914, lot 225. Collection of Canon Lewis Gilbertson, Rector of St Martin's Church, Ludgate Hill, London, before 1928: bequeathed to the museum by Mrs. Gilbertson, in memory of her husband in 1940.
Bibliography
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 133.
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