Two angels holding a monstrance.
Fleur-de-lys pattern on the background. Crosshatched background.
Koechlin 1924: France, 19th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd half of the 15th century?.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two sets of modern hinges on either side.
Object Condition
Ivory very cracked. Two holes at the top of the central panel.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 222); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.
Bibliography
A. Darcel, 'La collection Sauvageot', in Annales archéologiques, XVI, 1856, pp. 231, 233.
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 222.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 49.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 138, engraving.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 340, note 1.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 246.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 65.
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