Side 1: Annunciation with coat of arms in the centre; scroll; sun.
Side 2: Adoration of the Magi with Joseph. Pine cones (emblem ?).
Foliated decoration with roses. Crosshatched background. Border with roped pattern.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Flanders or Netherlands?, 2nd third of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (green, red, blue. See report by B. Guineau, 1995, and report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1999).
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Missing: two teeth from the comb.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 269); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 269.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 112.
E. Viollet-Le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque Carolingienne à la Renaissance (1872-1875), IV, p. 173.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 130.
J. von Schlosser, Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig, in Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, 20 (1899), no. 87-88.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, 429; II, no. 1158, III, pl. CXCIV.
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. 251.
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