IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31573 accession number: M.16-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Centre panel of a triptych, on a sunk panel with plain narrow borders. Ivory. Under a pierced canopy supported on two slender columns, Christ is crucified between the Virgin and St John. At the foot of the cross is the skull of Adam - a reference to the tradition that the cross was on the site of his grave. [Honorius: De Imagine Mundi, iii Patri. Lat. 172]. title: panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Spitzer Coll. (Cat. no. 40); McClean Bequest LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank McClean creditline: McClean Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31573 PEOPLE ------------------- Christ Virgin Mary St John SUBJECTS ------------------- skull cross skull cross TECHNIQUES ---------- ivory carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 900 - 1100 creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 1100 culture: 10th Century culture: 11th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.8 dimension: Weight units: oz value: 3 1/4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Masterpieces of Byzantine Art CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest, Catalogue of the Medieval Ivories, Enamels, Jewellery, Gems, and Miscellaneous Objects bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X.-XIII. Jahrhunderts I: Kasten --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_16_1904_1_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1038 pixels width: 803 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_16_1904_1_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 646 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_16_1904_1_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1038 pixels width: 803 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_16_1904_1_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 323 pixels width: 250 pixels