Gothic Ivories Project | Panels (possibly writing tablets), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablettes à écrire) (Front)

Panel 1
Coronation of the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers; musician angels (psaltery; string instruments).
Panel 2
Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; angel closing the Virgin's lips; apostle holding an aspergillum (or cross) and a situla (holy water bucket); apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm; apostle reading.
Pointed trefoils.

Westwood 1876: Italy, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Merati 1963: French, 15th century.
Conti 1966: French, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: French, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Gift of Countess Carolina Durini Trotti (b. 1762, d. 1833), Taverna, in 1825.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 402 ('69.61, `73.144).
Il Duomo di Monza: notizie illustrate sulla Reale Basilica di S. Giovanni Batista, sul tesoro e oggetti preziosi in essa conservati, ed. by L. Modorati (Monza, 1915), fig. 52.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 214, 345; II, no. 521.
A. Merati, Il tesoro del Duomo di Monza (Monza, 1963), p. 62.
R. Conti, Il Tesoro: guida alla conoscenza del Tesoro del Duomo di Monza (Monza, 1966), no. 40, p. 63.
R. Conti, Il Tesoro, Museo del Duomo (Monza, 1983), no. 40.
G. Morello, 'Gli avori della collezione Durini Trotti', in Monza. Il Duomo e i suoi tesori, dir. by R. Conti (Milan, 1988), p. 70.

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