Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on right arm; Virgin holding the right hand of Christ.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (modern).

Reverse
Scratches for glue. Modern inscription in pencil: 'no. 1330' (or '1339'?)

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head, part of the base.
Scratches for glue on top of Virgin's head and on back.

Comments
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 argues that this and the Louvre Saint Paul relief (OA 11167) came from a single work, perhaps a wood polyptych or triptych.

Provenance
Sold at Christie's, London, 9 April 1987, lot 38. Guy Ladrière gallery, Paris. Acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1990.

Bibliography
'Acquisitions', in Revue du Louvre, 1990-4, p. 311.
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (1990-1994), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1995, no. 24, fig.
B. Guineau, 'Etude des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1996), pp. 188-210.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 144.

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