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Panel (possibly fragment of a polyptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel (possibly fragment of a polyptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 412

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 55mm
Depth: 8mm

Presentation in the Temple; Joseph holding a candle and a basket of doves brought as offerings.


Koechlin Number: 0177

Gruyer 1902: France, mid 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century or beginning of 14th century.
Paris 1930: France, mid 13th century.
Bayonne 2002-2003: Paris (?), last third of the 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of one missing hinge on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (architectural details, robe), blue (basket), red (Virgin's robe).

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 412.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 134; II, no. 177.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 995.
Le Moyen Âge dans les collections du Musée Bonnat, exhibition catalogue, Bayonne, Musée Bonnat, 15 December 2002-30 June 2003, p. 11.


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