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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Amiens, Musée de Picardie

Inv. M.P.3063.546

Ivory

Height: 135 mm
Width: 58 mm
Depth: 3 mm

Swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women (probably part of a Crucifixion scene).


Koechlin Number: 0743

Koechlin 1924 and Museum's opinion 2014: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: head of the Holy Woman on the right hand side; lower part of the piece.
Damaged surface.

Provenance
Collection Albert Maignan (b. 1845, d. 1908); bequeathed by Maignan to the museum in 1908, but entered the collections in 1927.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 264; II, no. 743.
A. Roze, 'La collection Maignan-Larivière, Musée de PIcardie', in Bulletin des Musées de France 12 (December 1929), pp. 284-287.
Exposition d'art sacré ancien et moderne, exhibition catalogue, Amiens, 15 May-6 June 1948, no. 24.


Image

© Collection du Musée de Picardie, Amiens (photo Jean Louis Boutillier / Musée de Picardie).

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