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Relief (appliqué) (Side)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7269

Cetacean bone

Height: 145mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 26mm

Seated Christ; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; book; bench.


Koechlin Number: 0028

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Eastern France (?), beginning of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Labelled: 'E. U. 1900 / M. Doistau'. 4 holes. Scratches for glue.

Object Condition
Chips at the base.
Right hand broken and stuck back on (re-carved?).

Comments
This object appears to have come from a group depicting the Coronation of the Virgin.

Provenance
Collection of Maillet du Boulay. Collection of Félix Doistau (by 1900); gift of F. Doistau, 1919.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 67 (Doistau collection).
Les Accroissements des musées français (sous la direction d'Henri Rivière), III, Le Musée du Louvre en 1920. Dons, legs et acquisitions (Paris-New York: Demotte, 1921), pl. 46.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 64; II, no. 28.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 183.


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