Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist.
Foliated decoration.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
New York 1970: France, 1st half of the 14th century
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), c. 1300-1325.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (hair) and polychromy.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: candlestick held by the angel on the right; left forearm of Christ; candlestick held by the angel on the left partly broken (side 1).
Right arm of Christ and cross partly broken (side 2).
Lower part of the piece chipped.
Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris (in 1911). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 32, pl. XXV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 271, 274; II, no. 753.
The Middle Ages. Treasures from the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, no. 65.
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