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Panel (part of a polyptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (part of a polyptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious. Lives of saints.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 395a

Ivory

Height: 173mm
Width: 95mm
Depth: 7mm

Register 1: saint Denis consecrated as bishop of Athens; destruction of the idol Mars in Arles.
Register 2: Flagellation of saint Denis.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0345

Westwood 1876: France (?), 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Ottawa 1972: Paris, 1320s or 1330s.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: Paris, c. 1350-1360.
Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
Panel from a polyptych which was articulated in a concertina form and was at least composed of 6 panels.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 418 ('58.222).
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1063.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 178, 179; II, no. 345; III, pl. LXXIX.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), pp. 98-100.
Art of the Courts of France and England from 1259-1328; L'Art et la cour: France et Angleterre 1259-1328, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, Galerie nationale du Canada, 1972, no. 83, pl. 107.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 253.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 157.


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