or panels at the ends of the arms


A tortoise-shell cross with silver mounts and an ivory corpus. The ends of the arms of the cross are decorated with silver sprays of flowers and with a sun-burst radiating from the centre.

http://test.huntmuseum.com/search_materials2.asp?mSearch=Ivo...

a couple of suggestions...

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Note added at 10 days (2007-01-14 10:23:10 GMT) Post-grading
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Have since also found some references to them as "terminals" or "terminal panels", etc.


REVIEWS OF EXHIBITIONS
C Dempsey, VS Colloquia - Renaissance Studies - ingentaconnect.com
... consider the contribution of the friars to late- medieval Italian Art and ... and John
the Evangelist cut from the terminals of a large-scale crucifix, and now ...
Web Search
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/rest/2002/00000016...


To date, scholars' views of the program of the Cloisters cross have been inconclusive, primarily because the base terminal is lost. Prevailing opinion also rejects the Cloisters plaque as part of the missing terminal. Through a detailed technical, stylistic, and iconographic analysis, this paper argues that the plaque once formed the front face of the original base terminal, and that it represents Christ's "prophesy" and his condemnation by Caiaphas, which, at the beginning of the Passion cycle, are central to the Crucifixion, the Ascension, the Second Coming and to the entire program of the cross.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-920X(1991)30:1<65:AROT...