Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué; part of a group) (Front)

Westwood 1876: France, 13th or 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Rhineland (?), c. 1370-1380.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (hair) and faint traces of polychromy.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Chip and hole in the head of the Virgin, previously in-filled with a piece of ivory (lost).
Two metal pins in the base.

Comments
Originally mounted next to a Crucified Christ. This figure is part of the same ensemble as ML 132, also in the Louvre.

Provenance
Acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1852.

Bibliography
M. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 863-864.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 11-12.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 733 ('55.48).
E. Molinier, Catalogue des ivoires. Musée national du Louvre (Paris, 1896), no. 78-79.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 262, 264; II, no. 740.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 217.

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