Gothic Ivories Project | Centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Coronation of the Virgin; Christ crowning the Virgin; Christ holding a book; two angels swinging censers.
Medallions enclosing a quatrefoil with a protruding cone in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1330-1350.

Attribution
Atelier of the Master of the Mège Diptych (Gaborit-Chopin)

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on either side (repaired).

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (modern?) (gold, blue, red, translucent green (see unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).

Reverse
Labelled: 'no. 68', '2598'.
Traces of oxidation on the back.

Object Condition
Modern holes, one filled-in.

Provenance
Collection of Louis-Charles Timbal (no. 52); acquired from him by the Musée du Louvre in 1882; on loan to the Musée de Metz from 1975 to 1987; at the Musée du Louvre since 1987.

Bibliography
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 68.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 205; II, no. 525.
R.H. Randall, 'A Parisian Ivory Carver', in The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 38, 1980, fig. 7.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 154.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 163.

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