Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Italy (Pisa?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century. Style reminiscent of Nino Pisano (fl. 1345-1368), and perhaps made by a craftsman from his circle.

Attribution
Circle of Nino Pisano (Gaborit-Chopin)

Reverse
Modern hole for fixing.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked; crack on the Virgin's face.
Small stain under the right arm.
Missing: lower part of the relief.

Comments
The uneven base of the relief suggests that it is a fragment of a full-length figure, probably from a Crucifixion scene.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 232); given by A.-C. Sauvageot to the Museum in 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 232.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 5.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 84.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 226.

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