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Panel (fragment of a casket?), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket?), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; coffret) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Rouen, Musée Départemental des Antiquités de la Seine-Maritime

Inv. 2002.0.143

Ivory

Height: 107mm
Width: 75mm

The Virgin enters her house with Anna; Virgin holding an open book.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0958

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th century.
Joconde 2010: 4th quarter of 15th century, possibly fragment of a casket.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: ochre.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 342; II, no. 958.
Joconde, catalogue collectif des collections des musées de France: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm.


Image

© cg76 - Musée départemental des Antiquités - Rouen. Photography: Yohann Deslandes.

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