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Panel (writing tablet?), 2 registers, 3 arches cross (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Back)

Panel (writing tablet?), 2 registers, 3 arches cross (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; tablette à écrire) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 112 C

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 36mm
Depth: 3mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Saint Margaret emerging from the dragon, holding a crucifix; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; saint Agnes with a lamb, a book and martyr's palm.


Koechlin Number: 0342bis

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Chiesi 2011: France (Northern France?), 1360-1380.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Reverse divided into 7 compartments, one being circular. Raised border on three sides and part of the fourth one.Handwritten inscriptions: '171', '112'.

Object Condition
Holes along the left side. Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

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. 233, no. 112.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires Gothiques Français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 177, 180; II, no. 342 bis.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 358-368.


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