Crucified Christ.
Porter 1974: English, early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: wound.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: arms; lower legs (repaired with a different material). Nose damaged
Two long incisions in the back for attachment to the cross.
Provenance
Collection of John Hunt (b. 1900, d. 1976) and Gertrude Hunt (b. 1903, d. 1975), Limerick; now part of the Hunt Museum which opened in 1997.
Bibliography
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400, State University of New York at Binghamton, PhD 1974 (Ann Arbor, 1986: University Microfilms International), no. 37.
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