Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 15321

Ivory

Height: 133mm
Width: 90mm

Register 1: 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; hanging lamp. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; rugged cross.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Beaded border.

Koechlin Number: 0384

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd third of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Left border partly broken.
Missing: part of the background beside Christ's right hand.
Two holes.

Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9692).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 191, 200, 209; II, no. 384; III, pl. LXXXIV.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 613-14, in relation to no. 190.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 95 and 96.

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