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Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across, bands of rosettes (décor de roses; colonnettes) (Back)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across, bands of rosettes (décor de roses; colonnettes) (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 102 C

Ivory

Height: 165mm
Width: 75mm
Depth: 10mm

Register 1: Visitation; Annunciation; vase of lilies.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Medallions enclosing pierced trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0277

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 13th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1988: Paris, c. 1270-1290.
Florence 1989: Paris, c. 1270-1290.
Chiesi 2011: France (Paris), c. 1275-1320.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (architectural details; clothes).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: lilies (register 1) and candles (register 2).
Hole in the upper right part of the panel.Broken around the lower hinge.

Comments
The right wing of this diptych is also in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Inv. 103 C).

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), pp. 229-230, no. 102.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 166; II, no. 277.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Avori medievali - Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, 1988), p. 62, no. 16.
Arti del Medioevo e del Rinascimento. Omaggio ai Carrand, 1889-1989, exhibition catalogue, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1989, p. 243, no. 25 (D. Gaborit-Chopin).
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 105-116.


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