Gothic Ivories Project | Hair parter (gravoir) (Front)

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 13th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding? (see report by Guineau, 1995).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Dark brown ivory, cracked.
Missing: right hand of the god; left arm of the lady. Base partly recut to be levelled.
Small modern hole under base.

Comments
Koechlin 1924 erroneously described the work as religious, taking it as a depiction of the Virgin and Child with a donor.

Provenance
Collection of Victor Gay, Paris (d. 1887); collection of Mrs V. Gay. Gift of a group of friends of the Louvre, 1909.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 417; II, no. 1143; III, pl. CLXXXIX.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 179.

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