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Saint-Omer, Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin

Inv. 1920

Ivory

Height: 87mm
Width: 98mm
Depth: 23mm
Weight: 110g

Flight into Egypt; swaddled Christ.


Koechlin Number: 0725

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: Northern France, late 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Northern France, last quarter of the 13th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: legs and ears of the ass; Joseph.

Provenance
Collection of M. Chauvin fils: his gift to the Museum, 15 February 1834.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 63.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 261; II, no. 725; III, pl. CXIX.
De Madonna in de Kunst, 1954, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1954, no. 273.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 62.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. 213.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed September 2012].


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