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Comb with medallions (peigne double) (Side 2)

Comb with medallions (peigne double) (Side 2)
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Side 1

Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Passion.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 142

Ivory

Height: 122mm
Width: 148mm
Depth: 9mm

Side 1
Entry into Jerusalem. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter. Crucifixion; Saint John the Evangelist; onlookers; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy Women.
Side 2
Nativity with shepherd. Flight into Egypt; angel holding a scroll. Adoration of the Magi.
Trefoils between the medallions.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Comments
The work is inspired by ivories of the late 13th and 14th centuries. Ink inscriptions: 'A.108', 'S. 265'.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 265); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 265.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 108.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 294.


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