Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; two angels crowning the Virgin; Christ holding a fruit. Kneeling angels swinging censers in the spandrels.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, middle or 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two original hinges on the right side. Three additional modern hinges.
Reverse
Inscribed: 'no. 63'.
Object Condition
Ivory cracked and browned.
Chip with piece missing in upper-left corner.Holes in the upper part, in the centre (for a closing hook?).
Evidence of modern hinges on the right side. See report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1995.
Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century and one of these casts is now Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 228.
Provenance
Collection of J. G. Nichols, Esquire (in 1876). Acquired by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (inv. 41,98), from the Brimo Laroussilhe gallery, Paris, in 1941; returned to France in 1948; assigned to the Louvre by the Office des bien privés, 1951.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 436 ('54.71).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 170.
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. 580-2, in relation to no. 171.
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