Ottonian Ivory Plaque with the Crucifixion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Ivory Plaque with the Crucifixion

Date: ca. 1000

Geography: Carved in Cologne, Germany

Culture: Ottonian

Medium: Ivory with gilding, silver-gilt, champlevé enamel, glass and stone cabochon mount

Dimensions: Overall: 5 1/4 x 4 9/16 x 11/16 in. (13.4 x 11.6 x 1.8 cm) Overall (Ivory): 1 5/8 x 1 1/8 x 3/8 in. (4.1 x 2.8 x 0.9 cm)

Classification: Ivories

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number: 17.190.495a, b

On View

Description:

This miniature ivory with the Virgin and Saint John on either side of the cross and personifications of the sun and moon above is probably from a book cover or reliquary. It closely corresponds to monumental crucifixes carved about the year 1000.

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