Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 3545
Register 1: Christ in glory; angel holding the sun and moon; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails; crown of thorns; spear; cross); Virgin and saint John the Baptist kneeling.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Destrée 1902: France, early 14th century.
Koechlin 1924 and Brussels 1964: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Probably originally one hinge on either side but these parts have broken away and been replaced.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Breakages. The background plaque was possibly removed later. According to Koechlin, it consisted of a wooden plaque.
Missing: repairs to the left and right borders where the hinges were.
Provenance
Acquired in 1899.
Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 17.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 167, 200, 320; II, no. 283.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 279, pl. CXXVI, fig. 265.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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