Gothic Ivories Project | Hair parter (fragment; gravoir) (Side, right)

Trinity; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy).

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: England (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: one wing of the dove; lower part of the hair parter.
The base of the hair parter has been cut.

Comments
This object is one of very few known hair parters whose handles depict religious, rather than secular, themes.

Provenance
Bought in Chatou by a Montauban merchant (according to Mr. H. Leblan); collection of Hervé Leblan, Paris. collection of Claude Vaudecrane, Le Mans; gift of Claude Vaudecrane to the Museum in 1989.

Bibliography
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (1985-1989), exhibition catalogue, Paris, musée du Louvre, 1990, no. 23, fig.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 224.

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