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Relief (appliqué; fragment) (Front)
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Mehun-sur-Yèvre, Musée Charles VII

Inv. 999.08.298

Bone

Height: 64mm
Width: 42mm
Depth: 5.5mm

Kneeling angel holding a scroll (part of an Annunciation scene).

Paris 2004 and Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris?), c. 1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (hair).

Reverse
Flat.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the scroll held by the angel. Discolouration caused by extended burial in the ground.

Provenance
Found in 1998 in the upper layers of the ditches of Mehun-sur-Yèvre (rue Emile Zola), in the axis of a canon's house, alongside numerous medieval 15th-century daily life objects, coins and pottery.

Bibliography
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 120 (mistakenly designated as Inv. 999.08.01).
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, p. 219, in relation to no. 49.


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© Musée Charles VII, Mehun-sur-Yèvre.

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