Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel (fragment), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquettes ajourées) (Group)

Openwork panel (fragment), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquettes ajourées) (Group)

Openwork panel (fragment), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquettes ajourées) (Group)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 11142

Ivory

Height: 40mm
Width: 25mm

Birth of the Virgin.

Koechlin Number: 0874

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish (?), 2nd half of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (green).

Comments
This panel is related to twelve other openwork panels in the collection of the Cluny Museum (see related objects).

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre du Sommerard: acquired by the museum in 1843 (as part of a neo-Gothic piece of furniture, taken apart in 1885).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 323, 324, 326; II, no. 874.

Image

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