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Openwork medallion (médaillon ajouré) (Back)

Openwork medallion (médaillon ajouré) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 12779

Ivory

Height: 70mm (diameter)

Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; saint Peter holding a key; apostles; musician angels blowing trumpets; clouds; sun and moon.

Koechlin Number: 0871

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, Paris or Rhineland, c. 1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat. Crosshatching.

Provenance
Collection of Chavrain-sur-Yves. Bought by the Museum in 1891.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 323; II, no. 871; III, pl. CLVIII.
J. Rasmussen, 'Untersuchungen zum Halleschen Heiltum des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg', in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 28 (1977), pp. 91-132 (pp. 110, 112; pl. XVIII).
R. Didier, R. Recht, 'Paris, Prague, Cologne et la sculpture de la 2de moitié du 14e siècle. A propos de l'exposition des Parler de Cologne', in Bulletin monumental 138 (1980), p. 203, fig. 37.

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