Inv. 1587 (Inv. Soprintendenza 242)
Register 1: Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb with hands in prayer.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Naples 1981: France (Paris), end of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with raised border. Crosshatching. Label with modern inventory numbers.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel. Another hole in the middle border (plugged).
Provenance
Collection of Placido de Sangro, Duke of Martina (b. 1829, d. 1891) (collection assembled in the 2nd half of the 19th century): given by his heirs to the city of Naples in 1911; housed at the Villa Floridiana since 1931.
Bibliography
A. O. Quintavalle, 'Medioevo ignorato. Avori gotici nelle pubbliche collezioni napoletane', in Crisopoli (1934), p. 291, fig. 12.
Medioevo e produzione artistica di serie. Smalti di Limoges e avori gotici in Campania, ed. by P. Giusti, P. Leone de Castris, exhibition catalogue, Naples, Museo Duca di Martina, 1981, no. II.10.
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