Gothic Ivories Project | Polygonal panels with arches (fragments of a casket?) (Front)

Polygonal panels with arches (fragments of a casket?) (Front)

Polygonal panels with arches (fragments of a casket?) (Front)

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Bouillon, Musée Ducal

MD-MA 766

Ivory

Height: 70mm
Width: 90mm

Bust of man; bust of woman.
Medallion enclosing a rounded trefoil. Medallion enclosing flamboyant tracery.

Museum's opinion 2012: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth, slightly concave. Traces of glue on the sides.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of panels.

Comments
This fragment is made of three separate pieces of ivory.

Provenance
Bought in Paris from art dealer Niklause, in August 1957.

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