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Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 432

Ivory

Height: 74mm
Width: 43mm
Depth: 5mm

Seated Virgin and Child; angel swinging censer; tonsured male figure kneeling in donor position (monk); bench.
Border of dentils; pinnacles.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
No traces of hinges.

Reverse
Flat, with some scoring. Label with inscriptions: '432', '1015', and '25'.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the upper right corner.
Two later holes in the upper part of the panel. Brown stains. Worn.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 432.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1015.


Image

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