Cl. 395d
Register 1: saint Peter preaching.
Register 2: Crucifixion of saint Peter.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Westwood 1876: France (?), 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Ottawa 1972: Paris, 3rd decade of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: Paris, c. 1350-1360 (in relation to no. 253).
Avignon 1997: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of hinges.
Object Condition
Very good condition (unpublished report Cascio Devos 1997).
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. 416 ('58.220).
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1066.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 178, 179; II, no. 344; III, pl. LXXIX.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 98.
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. 82, pl. 108.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 166.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 157.
F. Garnier, Langage de l'image au Moyen Age. Signification et symbolique (Paris, 1982-1989), I, pp. 120-123.
Histoires tissées, exhibition catalogue, Avignon, Palais des Papes, 1997, no. 38, p. 87.
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