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Gabled panel (part of a polyptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)

Gabled panel (part of a polyptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)
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Religious.

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Montpellier, Société Archéologique de Montpellier - Musée Languedocien

SAM 857.17.1 (formerly SAM Iv.5)

Ivory

Height: 112 mm
Width: 51 mm
Depth: 8mm

Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and two soldiers asleep; ointment pots; hanging lamp.
Rosette in the gable.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003: Paris, c. 1300.


Attribution
Atelier of the Diptych of the Judging Christ (Atelier du diptyque Du Christ Juge)

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
This panel seems to be part of the same polyptych as one at the Victoria and Albert Museum (242-1867), one at the Musée du Louvre in Paris (OA 2761), and one in Brussels (Inv. 846). See related objects. Davies argues for them coming from two different polyptychs (see Williamson and Davies 2014).

Provenance
Purchased in Avignon on 23 November 1850.

Bibliography
L. Deguara, 'Les ivoires de l'Antiquité à la fin du Moyen Âge', in Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Montpellier, XXI: Hommage à Robert-Saint-Jean, Art et Histoire dans le Midi languedocien et rhodanien (Xe-XIXe s.), dir. by G. Romestan (Montpellier, 1993), pp. 381-392 (p. 385, fig. 3).
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 91.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 126, fig. 126b.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 234, in relation to no. 73 and 76, fig. 2 on p. 243.


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