Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork medallions (médaillons ajourés) (Front, medallion 2)

Openwork medallions (médaillons ajourés) (Front, medallion 2)

Openwork medallions (médaillons ajourés) (Front, medallion 2)

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Front, medallion 1

Links

Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
www.polomuseale.firenze.it

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 159 C

Ivory

Height: 60mm (diameter of each)

Medallion 1
Crucifixion with thieves; swooning Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women; saint Mary Magdalene crying at the foot of the cross; saint John the Evangelist; Longinus with spear; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; trees; rugged cross.
Medallion 2
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; angel swinging a censer; God the Father holding the orb and cross; blessing gesture.
Register 2: saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a martyr's palm and a sword; standing Virgin and Child; saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm; hanging curtain.
Foliated background.

Koechlin Number: 0869

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Flanders, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (hair, cross, beards, spears, throne, crowns, censers, etc.), green (foliage, trees, wings, ground...), red (curtain, flowers, clothes), blue (curtains, clothes), purple, pink (clothes, flowers), black (eyes).

Object Condition
Missing: part of the openwork.

Comments
Originally framed with a copper frame and covered with crystal.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 248, no. 159.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 210, 323, 428; II, no. 869; III, pl. CLVIII.

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