Register 1: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); apostles; Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; two angels swinging censers.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; angels.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side (repaired).
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Object Condition
Holes for hinges (filled in).
Modern hole in upper part.
Comments
The left wing of this diptych is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (17.190.277).
Provenance
Gift of Mr and Mrs H. de Nanteuil de la Norville to the Museum in 1941.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 264 (left wing).
G. Fontaine, 'Volet de diptyque en ivoire. L'Adoration des Mages et la Mort de la Vierge. France, début du XIVe siècle', in Monuments et Mémoires. Fondation Eugène Piot, 1942, pl. XVI.
P. Verlet, 'Acquisitions du département des Objets d'art', in Revue des beaux-arts de France, October-November 1942, p. 19, fig. p. 18.
Musées nationaux. Nouvelles acquisitions, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1945, no. 253.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 117.
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