Inv. TAU1905000107
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Joseph holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Inscription: 'Ce morceau d'yvoire est l'un des deux couverts d'un livre antique que l'on conservoit dans l'abbaye de Signy, (de l'ordre de Cîteaux), fondée par St Bernard et fille de Clairvaux dès le XIIe siècle'. In smaller script though probably by the same hand: 'diocèse de Reims'.
Comments
The left wing of this diptych is also in the Palais du Tau in Rheims (Inv. TAU1905000106).
Provenance
Said to have come from Signy l'Abbaye (see inscription on the back); entered the Treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Rheims c. 1840.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 316.
L. André, D. Cailleaux, Récolement des objets mobiliers classés au titre des Monuments Historiques dans la ville de Reims, rapport de fin d'étude (Paris, 1986), no. 116/1 and no. 116/2.
Palissy database: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr [accessed September 2009].
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