Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (clothes, armours, hair, cross, etc.), blue (wings, shield, book, throne, clouds, etc.), red (banner, prie-Dieu, wings), green (crown of thorns; ground; certain haloes, etc.), brown (hair and beard of Christ in the Resurrection scene).Traces of a painted inscription on the scroll in the Annunciation scene 'AVE MARIA'.

Reverse
Older labels with inscriptions: 'COLLECTION DU DR P. THOBY NANTES IX'; 'EXPOSITION D'ART RELIGIEUX 1933, LA PSALLETTE DE NANTES, 313'.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the upper right border; most of the lower right scene. Vertical crack between the Virgin and God the Father in the Coronation scene.

Comments
The cross-shaped compartment in the centre of the medallion would originally have enclosed relics (see the Pradelles reliquary for comparison).

Provenance
Collection of Dr Thoby, Nantes (bought from art dealer Mayet, Paris, on 20 June 1929; no. IX in Thoby's collection): his bequest to the museum in 1969.

Bibliography
P. Thoby, Carnet n° 48, Ivoires, Dossier Thoby, Archives du musée Dobrée [s.d., handwritten], no. IX.
Exposition d'art religieux à la Psallette, exhibition catalogue, Nantes, Psallette de Nantes, 1933, no. 313.
Art médiéval de France: collections du Musée Thomas Dobrée de Nantes, exhibition catalogue, Fribourg, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Fribourg, 22 June-24 September 1972, no. 99 (D. Costa).
Art et liturgie au Moyen Âge, exhibition catalogue, Angoulême, Chambéry, Caen, Nantes, Nice, December 1976-January 1978, no. 166, pl. XVI (Nantes); no. 24 (Caen).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 506, fig. 235c.