Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Châlons-en-Champagne (also known as Châlons-sur-Marne), Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a stem of flowers; female veiled figure kneeling in donor position.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin raising both hands; sun and moon.
Pinnacles.

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: Lorraine, c. 1330.
Paris 1981 and Paris 1998: Eastern France (Lorraine), c. 1300-1325.
Châlons-en-Champagne 2005-2006 and 2007-2008: Lorraine, 1st quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges. Vertical cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Picot (b. 1799, d. 1861)(no. 62 in his will): his bequest to the Museum in 1861.

Bibliography
Inventaire du musée Picot (1866; handwritten), no. 34.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 198, 201, 204; II, no. 405; III, pl. LXXXVI.
M.-H. Longhurst, Catalogue of carvings in ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1929), II, p. 27, no. 4-1872.
French Art in the Middle Age, exhibition catalogue, Québec-Montréal, 1972-1973, no. 53.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. 238.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 121.
'Schatz aus den Trümmern: der Silberschrein von Nivelles und die europäische Hochgotik', in Museumszeitung: Bilder und Texte aus den Kölner Museen, 4 (1995).
Un Trésor gothique: la châsse de Nivelles, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen museum and Paris, MNMA-Cluny, 1995-1996, no. 41.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 106, p. 170.
Regards sur l'art médiéval: collections du Musée du Louvre et des Musées de Châlons-en-Champagne, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 1 July 2005-15 January 2006, no. 71, p. 112.
Histoires d'ivoire. Collections du Musée du Louvre et des musées de Châlons-en-Champagne, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 2007-2008, no. 1 (in part 2), p. 134.
Charles Picot collectionneur (1799-1861): De la chambre des merveilles au musée, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 17 May 2008-11 January 2009, no. 53, p. 82.

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