Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (possibly fragment of a box), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette) (Front; group)

Panel (possibly fragment of a box), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette) (Front; group)

Panel (possibly fragment of a box), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette) (Front; group)

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 11320

Ivory

Height: 50mm
Width: 40-45mm

Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; hanging lamp.
Pinnacles. Brickwork or tiled roof. Crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 0957

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish (?), end of 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
This panel, together with seven other ones (see related objects), came from the modern binding of Cl. 1251, and were removed from it in 1886.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired by the museum in 1843 (as part of the binding of Cl. 1251, from which it was removed in 1886).

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1813.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 342; II, no. 957.

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