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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 10002

Ivory

Height: 125mm
Depth: 25mm

Crucified Christ.


Koechlin Number: 0738

Destève 1906: Southern France, 14th century.
Bertaux 1912: Spain (?), 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France or Spain (?), 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1300-1320.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy (see unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1995).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: arms of Christ.
Ivory cracked, and made brown by the modern application of an oily substance.

Provenance
Claudius Côte collection, Lyon (acquired in Spain, possibly near Barcelona (see Thoby)); bequest of Mrs C. Côte to the Museum in 1962.

Bibliography
T. Destève, 'La Collection de M. Claudius Côte', in Les Arts 59 (November 1906), pp. 28-32 (pp. 31-32).
E. Bertaux, Quelques pièces de la collection Claudius Côte (Lyon, 1912), plate XVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 263; II, no. 738.
P. Thoby, Le Crucifix des origines au concile de Trente. Étude iconographique (Nantes, 1959), pp. 174-175, fig. 297-298, pl. CXXXIX.
H. Landais, 'La collection Claudius Côte. Département des Objets d'art', in Revue du Louvre, 1961, pp. 129-130, fig. 1.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 121.


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