French, Limoges, early 13th century

the titulus inscribed: IHS

with Dr. Philipp Lederer, Lugano, before 1944;
Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne, before 1964 to 1971;
Edmund de Unger, London, 1971 to 1997;
his sale, Sotheby's New York, The Keir collection of medieval works of art, 20 November 1997, lot 71;
private collection, U.S.A.

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, 1964, no. 890;
Aachen, Suermondt Museum, Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, 1965, no. E96;
Kansas City, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The Keir collection, 1983, no. 34

H. Schnitzler, P. Bloch, and C. Ratton, Email, Goldschmiede- und Metallarbeiten, Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Lucerne/ Stuttgart, 1965, no. E96, pl. 47

Overall the condition of the cross is good with wear and dirt to the surface consistent with age and handling. The cross is slightly warped. There are losses to the enamel on the lower arms, next to Christ's hips, and to and above the halo, and some further stable craquelure around these areas. There is wear to the gilding throughout. There are several scratches and assay marks to the reverse. There are three paper labels bearing numbers and remnant of a fourth on the reverse.
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Another version of this type, without a separately wrought and applied corpus, was sold in these rooms on 8 July 1976, lot 5.