Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy Women; Saint John the Evangelist; onlookers; two angels crying.
Two medallions enclosing quatrefoils with a male and female face.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century (Crucifixion) and modern (Adoration of the Magi).
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, early 14th century (Crucifixion) and 19th century (Adoration of the Magi).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
On the crucifixion wing:
Engraved: 'N', 'vigne'.
Labelled: 'A. 34', 'Chefs d'oeuvre de l'Art Français / 1937' and 'cat. Molinier 104 / inv. OA 51'.
On the Adoration of the Magi wing:
In ink: 'XIVe 300 Fr.'; in pencil: 'N (S) 51'.

Object Condition
Two notches along the side. Two modern holes (refilled) in upper-middle of Crucifixion wing.

Provenance
Lemer collection, Compiègne. Acquired in 1858; on loan to the Musée national de Moyen Âge-Musée Cluny since 1948, renewed by arrêté of 10 July 1986.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 34.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 104.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 201, 204, 223; II, no. 431.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 266.

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