Object details
Accession number
S27w29
Primary Creator
French
Full title
Ivory Plaquette: Crucifixion
Creation Date
1350-1375
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antiquarian and dealer Gaetano Pepe, Naples, for about 123 lire on 26 October 1897.
Marks
Printed blue and white label inscribed in black ink (verso): No. 112 / TKB
Dimensions
9.8 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Ivory
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 38 (22 May 1966), p. 2. (15th century)
Richard H. Randall, Jr. The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 104, no. 141, ill. (as French, Lorraine or Burgundy)
Nina Rowe. "Pocket Crucifixions: Jesus, Jews, and Ownership in Fourteenth-Century Ivories." Studies in Iconography 32 (2011), p. 84-85, fig. 3.
Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, accessed 2013, ill. www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk
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