Cl. 438
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation. Nativity with midwife. Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Register 2: Christ among the doctors. Baptism of Christ by saint John the Baptist; angel holding Christ's tunic. Meal at Bethany (at the house of Simon the Leper?). Entry into Jerusalem.
Crosshatched background.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish (?), end of 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Holes (for fittings now lost). Upper border partly broken.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.
Bibliography
Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique, ou Recueil général de médailles, monnaies, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs tant anciens que modernes... gravés par les procédés de M. Achille Collas, ed. by P. Delaroche, vols. 19-20: Recueil général de bas-reliefs et d'ornemens ou mélanges typoglyptiques. Ivoires, meubles, armes, bijoux (Paris, 1836), pl. II, no. 4.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1102.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, 342; II, no. 956; III, pl. CLXVII.
Agnès Sorel et sa légende, exhibition catalogue, Château de Loches, 1970, no. 97.
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