Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7763

Ivory

Height: 60mm
Width: 45mm (each wing)
Depth: 7mm

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Trefoils in the spandrels.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Style derived from the Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs (Gaborit-Chopin)

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Édouard Corroyer, Paris (d. 1904); gift of Mrs Édouard Corroyer, 1905.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 207.

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