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Panel, 1 register (possibly fragment of a casket or polyptych) (Back)

Panel, 1 register (possibly fragment of a casket or polyptych) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 11802

Ivory

Height: 51mm
Width: 50mm
Depth: 2.5mm

Temptation of Christ; devil; bread.
Crosshatched background.

Avignon 1997: France, 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks.

Provenance
Found in 1888 in the storage area, forming part of a misericord.

Bibliography
R. Colliot, 'Rencontre du moine Raoul Glaber avec le diable d'après ses Histoires', in Le diable au Moyen-Age (doctrine, problèmes moraux, représentations). 3e colloque du CUERMA. Aix-en-Provence, 3-5 March 1978 (Sénéfiance 6) (Aix-en-Provence, 1979), pp. 117-132 (pp. 125-128).
Histoires tissées, exhibition catalogue, Avignon, Palais des Papes, 1997, no. 16, p. 66.

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