Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register (plaquette) (Back)

Man of Sorrows, hands crossed on his chest; Christ displaying his wounds; mountain; tree; cruciform halo.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Italy (Tuscan?), late 14th century or 1st decades of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (green, bright blue, perhaps gilding. See report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).The wounds on the hands were probably painted.

Reverse
Inscribed: '42, 39'.
Flat and smooth, with some scratches.

Object Condition
Some cracks. Small chip with piece missing at top, centre.
Nine holes for a frame, traces of metal.

Comments
The left wing would almost certainly have depicted a bust of the Virgin and Child (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003; Belting 1981).

Provenance
Acquired in Paris for the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (inv. 42,39), August 1942; returned to France in 1948; given to the Louvre by the Office des biens privés, 1951.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 228.

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