Gothic Ivories Project | Corpus (fragment) (Front)

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France or England, late 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (red on lips). Gilding postdates the cracks.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Ivory very cracked.Missing: body of Christ.
Evidence of strikes to nose, cheeks, and forehead. The chipped parts have been lightly re-carved (fringe on forehead, beard, edges of moustache). The eyes have been re-carved.

Comments
The full statuette would have been 400mm high (Gaborit-Chopin 2003).

Provenance
Guy Ladrière collection, Paris; gift of G. Ladrière to the Museum in 1988.

Bibliography
'Acquisitions', in Revue du Louvre. La revue des musées de France, 3, 1988, p. 256.
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (1985-1989), exhibition catalogue, Paris, musée du Louvre, 1990, no. 19.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 106.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 25.

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