Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 2757

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 121mm
Width: 80mm (each wing)
Depth: 6mm

Wing, left
Seated Virgin and Child; angel crowning the Virgin; four musician angels (rebec, psaltery, lute, portable organ); throne with pinnacles.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; Saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; angels holding the sun and the moon.
Border of dentils. Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0570

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, mid-14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked. Two holes in the upper part of each panel.

Provenance
Collection of Baron Jean-Charles Davillier (no. 46); bequest of Baron Davillier, 1883.

Bibliography
L. Courajod and E. Molinier, Donation du baron Charles Davillier. Catalogue des objets exposés au musée du Louvre (Paris, 1885), no. 46.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 113.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 208, 219, 224; II, no. 570; III, pl. C.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 168.

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