Koechlin 1924: France, 14th century or 19th century (?).
Scholten 2011: Northern France (?), c. 1275-1300.
Attribution
Follower of the Soissons group (Atelier du Diptyque de Soissons)(Koechlin 1924)
Hinges
Two sets of two hinges on either side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of original gilding and polychromy: background, hair, lining of garments.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: four pinnacles on top and one in the centre of the roof (it is uncertain whether the pinnacles visible on a photograph from c. 1924 were original or replacements); base; right colonnette (early replacement).
Broken around the upper inner hinge on the right.
Comments
The eyes of the Virgin and of Christ are pierced and filled with a dark substance.
Provenance
Collection of Count Shuvalov (Schuwaloff), Saint Petersburg; Jacques Seligmann & Company, art dealer, Paris and New York; Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore; Walters sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 May 1941, lot 1051; acquired by Robert Lehman from this sale.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 88; II, no. 56.
Songs of Glory, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985, no. 90.
F. Scholten, The Robert Lehman Collection XII: European Sculpture and Metalwork (New York, 2011), no. 30.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), pp. 167-169, in relation to no. 51.
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