Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 2 registers, with arches (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Triptych, 2 registers, with arches (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Triptych, 2 registers, with arches (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Fécamp, Palais Bénédictine

Inv. A-1-b10

Ivory

Height: 264mm
Width: 262mm
Depth: 7mm (open)

Scenes from the life of Saint Louis (king Louis IX of France).
Wing, left
Register 1: Dream of saint Louis.
Register 2: Education of saint Louis.
Centre panel
Register 1: Communion of saint Louis. Unidentified scene; saint Louis; Muslims; crown; falchions.
Register 2: Saint Louis giving justice beneath the oak of Vincennes; tree; canopy. Acts of mercy of saint Louis: washing the feet of the poor.
Wing, right
Register 1: unidentified scene.
Register 2: Saint Louis carrying the crown of thorns and the three nails towards the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris; procession.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2013: French (?), 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
In the collection assembled by Alexandre Le Grand for the museum by 1888. Described in a pre-1888 handwritten inventory kept at the museum as: 'Un triptyque en ivoire: Vie de St Louis.' (p. 7).

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