Inv. 18129 (Roschach 918)
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.
Object Condition
Missing: hands of the angels at the top; hands of the Virgin; right hand of Christ; candlesticks held by the kneeling angels partly broken; hands of the magi and hand of Christ in the lower part.
Provenance
Transferred from the Musée des Augustins to the Musée Saint-Raymond in 1892; transferred to the Musée Paul-Dupuy in 1961. tbc
Bibliography
A. Auriol, Un Coffret d'ivoire gothique conservé au musée Saint-Raymond, in Bulletin de la Société Archéologique du Midi de la France (1917-1925), p. 71.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 173, II, no. 311.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 159-160, in relation to no. 161.
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