Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Register 1: Noli me Tangere; Coronation of the Virgin.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Adoration of the Magi.
Beaded border.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue (2010- referring to the other wing): France, c. 1340.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, c. 1340.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), 1340-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side (repaired).

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Traces of a raised border along the edges and a thick vertical strip down the centre, which also appears on the back on the other leaf, probably indicating that the diptych once was set in an open-backed frame.

Object Condition
Parts of the upper and lower border missing (repaired). Hole in the centre at the top of register 2 (with ivory plug).

Comments
The left wing is Victoria and Albert Museum, 665-1863 (see related object).

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1077.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 191; II, no. 383.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), pp. 289-290, fig. 1, in relation to no. 95.

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