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Wing, right (Front)

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 15326

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 64mm
Depth: 10mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist; onlookers holding scrolls; angels holding the sun and the moon; rugged cross.
Medallions containing quatrefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0429

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Traces of an ink inscription.

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9697).

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 334.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 204, 220; II, no. 429.

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