Inv. MA 2006
Register 1: Nativity; Virgin holding the swaddled child.
Register 2: Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Berliner 1926 and Museum's opinion 2014: France, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Lower corners damaged.
Two holes in the uppe register.
Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1896.
Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1373, pl. XXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 157; II, no. 267.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 42.
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