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Wing, right (part of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, right (part of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 9330

Ivory

Height: 184mm
Width: 104mm
Depth: 9mm

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.

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century (left wing)
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: North French or Belgian (Hainaut; Brabant; Liège), last third of the 13th century.


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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