Attribution
Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs (Gaborit-Chopin)

Hinges
Two modern hinges (one broken).

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (several layers, oldest (not original?): dull red, blue. See unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).

Reverse
In ink: 'Timbal / 57'. Labelled: 'no. 103', '2599'.

Object Condition
Small chips at the edges.

Comments
Gaborit-Chopin (2003) writes that this and other related pieces depicting the Ascension and Pentecost were probably made by the same atelier.

Provenance
Treasury of Charles V (before 1380?). Collection of Louis-Charles Timbal, Paris (no. 57); Acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1882.

Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 51.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 103.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 215, II, no. 511, III, pl. XCIII.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 161.
E. Gross, Religious Relief Ivory Carving During the Regency and the Reign of Charles V of France (1356-1380), (Ann Arbor, 1986), pp. 230-231.
R. H. Randall, 'An Ivory Diptych', in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin, 1991, fig. 5.
B. Guineau, 'Etude des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1996).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 200.
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. 579, in relation to no. 170.
Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, 'Documents et œuvres d'art: remarques sur quelques ivoires gothiques français', Cahiers Archeologiques, vol. 55, 2014, p. 124, pl. 9.