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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 106

Ivory

Height: 69mm
Width: 53mm
Depth: 4/5mm

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; onlookers.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges (repaired).

Reverse
On back of right wing: illegible label and inscriptions in pencil: 'S227', 'mol 89'.

Object Condition
Very worn.
Wrenching, pieces missing, and restorations around the hinges.
Stains.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 227); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot to the Musée du Louvre in 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 227.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 38.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 89.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 154.


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