Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); tonsured male figure kneeling in donor position (monk); saint Denis holding his head.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; rugged cross.
Angel in prayer supporting the volute. Foliated decoration.
Maskell 1905: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, c. 1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: part of base.
Provenance
Collection of Charles Mannheim (by 1900). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie (Paris, 1896), I: Les Ivoires, p. 194.
E. Molinier, Collection Charles Mannheim (Paris, 1898), no. 14, pl. 7.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 75.
G. Migeon, Exposition rétrospective de l'art français (Paris, 1900), p. 16.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), p. 217
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 271, 273, 274, 275; II, no. 764.
The Life of Christ, exhibition catalogue, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1948, no. 116.
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