Register 1: Annunciation. Visitation.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses; throne; tree.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1290-1310.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three hinges on the right side. Groove suggesting a rod connected the three hinges (charnière à tringle).
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (several layers, minute traces of original polychromy). See report by Cascio and Levy, 1996.
Object Condition
Missing: flower from the vase in the Annunciation scene.
Evidence of hinges with a groove for a connecting rod.
Hole (modern) in the upper part.
Provenance
Sambon collection. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 25-28 May 1914, lot 302. Acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1922, from escrow of M. Hirsch, as arrears on the Poirson bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques diptyques d'ivoire gothiques français. Les diptyques à décor de roses', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, July-Sept 1918, p. 241.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 154, 157, 158; II, no. 260, III, pl. LXX.
O. Beigbeder, Les ivoires (Paris, 1965), no. 7, fig 36.
L'Art décoratif d'Europe occidentale, IXe-XVIe siècles, d'après les collections du musée du Louvre et de Cluny, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad and Moscow, 1980-1981, no. 7.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 113.
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