Object details
Object number
S27w29
Creator(s)
French
Title
Ivory Plaquette: Crucifixion
Date
1350-1375
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
9.8 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Printed blue and white label inscribed in black ink (verso): No. 112 / TKB
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antiquarian and dealer Gaetano Pepe, Naples, for about 123 lire on 26 October 1897.
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.
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
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp. 93-94, fig. 46.
Gallery
Long Gallery
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