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Gabled panel (fragment of a polyptych; tabernacle), 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)

Gabled panel (fragment of a polyptych; tabernacle), 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum

1960.3.54

Ivory

Height: 74mm
Width: 32mm
Depth: 5mm

Massacre of the Innocents; soldier in armour; swaddled child.

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century (Niort fragment of the same polyptych).
Randall 1993: English (German workman or model), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: red, brown, yellow, gold (pattern on the background), architecture.

Reverse
Not visible.

Object Condition
Shaved on all sides.

Comments
Other fragments have survived: two in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (64.27.19, 64.27.20), one in the Musée Bernard d'Agesci in Niort (Inv. 914.1.137), two other ones in the Crocker Art Museum (1960.3.78 and 79) and one in Washington. This panel was the 2nd register of the inner left wing. To see how these fragments were originally arranged, see Randall 1993.

Provenance
Gift of Ralph C. and Violette M. Lee in 1960.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 182 (Niort fragment of the same polyptych).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 45c.


Image

© Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Gift of Ralph C. and Violette M. Lee.

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