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Openwork panel (possibly part of a diptych; plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel (possibly part of a diptych; plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

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Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

L 434

Ivory

Height: 147mm
Width: 114mm

Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; angel giving the Virgin the last sacrament; apostles holding books; candelabras; Virgin in clouds borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption); musician angels (psaltery; trumpets; portable organ; drums, flute; bagpipes, etc.); God the Father holding a crown for the Virgin. Niches with musician angels.
Carved inscription: 'Cest le trespassement [Nostre Dame]'.
Pinnacles. Tracery. Pointed trefoils in the gables. Bands of pierced quatrefoils.


Koechlin Number: 0862

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
No evidence of hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Jacques-Amédée Lambert: his bequest to the Museum in 1850.

Bibliography
A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, (1878), I, p. 288.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 214, 323, 324, 326; II, no. 862; III, pl. CLVI.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 118-119, fig. 16a-b).
On Jacques-Amédée Lambert, see: J.-F. Garmier, 'Le Goût du Moyen Âge chez les collectionneurs lyonnais du XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art 47 (1980), p. 57 (where he is erroneously called Jacques-Antoine).


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