Adoration of the Magi; angel holding the star.
Pinnacles. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century (right wing).
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: Paris, 14th century, c. 1340-c. 1360 (right wing).
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Comments
The right wing of this diptych is now in the Louvre (OA 9356). This wing was not know to Koechlin (1924) nor Gaborit-Chopin (2003).
Provenance
Collection of B. Hochon: sold, Paris, 11 June 1903, p. 16, lot 23. Collection of G. Dormeuil, (at least from 1913); Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (in 2008; see M.-A. Carlier, Art Médiéval. Exposition à l'occasion du centenaire de Brimo de Laroussilhe (Paris, 2008), no. 28).
Bibliography
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 122, p. 62.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 207, 220, 222, 223, 224; II, no. 608; III, pl. CIII (right wing only).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 405 (in relation to no. 164, right wing).
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