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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Marseille, Musée Grobet-Labadié

Inv. GL 4407

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 25mm

Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; tree; books.

Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), second quarter of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: red (robes), blue-green (tree; books) and gold (along the hems, hair, beards, tree).

Reverse
Curved, with crosshatchings.
Labels with inscriptions: '1693' and 'Inv. 4407'.

Object Condition
Some brown marks.

Provenance
Waïsso (?) collection: acquired from the art dealer Dentaly (rue du jeune Anacharsis, Marseille) in November 1882 by Bruno Vayson, first husband of Marie Labadié, for 65 francs; Marie, following the death of her second husband, Louis Grobet, in 1917, gave her collection to the city of Marseille in 1919; the museum opened to the public in 1925.


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