Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge; on loan to Arras, Musée des Beaux Arts d'Arras
Cl. 15309
Side 1: head of a lady; headdress decorated with flower, fleur-de-lys and ermine pattern.
Side 2: head of a corpse; vermin; worms; toad.
Koechlin 1924: Flanders or Northern France, 1st third of the 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Nose, lower lip and headdress of the female figure chipped.
Chipped round the hole at the bottom.
Comments
Hole down the centre.
Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9680).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 449; II, no. 1236.
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