Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angels crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Two angels swinging censers and holding navettes in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Provenance
Paul Garnier collection, Paris: his sale, 1906 lot 41. Emile Baboin collection, Lyon (after 1912). Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1951 (purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust).
Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Collection Paul Garnier', in Les Arts 53 (May 1906), pt. 2, pp. 13-24 (p. 16).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 216; II, no. 552.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 59.
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