Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (the oldest is blue, red. See unpublished report by J. Levy, 1986).

Object Condition
Small chips around the border.
The ivory was, at an unknown time, converted into a Pax (baiser de paix). It was inserted into a gothic metal mount shaped so as to frame the ivory, its lower border cut out so a protective glass cover could be slid over. The mount was removed in 1986 (see Gaborit-Chopin 2003 for photograph of the mount).

Comments
The thinness of the panel indicates that it would have been inserted into a metallic mount, and it may originally have been the pendant of a rosary.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 7 March 1986, lot 126, with ill. (then in a frame); gift of Mr. Alain Moatti to the Museum in 1986.

Bibliography
Musée du Louvre, Nouvelles acquisitions 1985-1989, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1990, no. 28, fig.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Une Pitié Nostre Seigneur d'ivoire', in Festschrift für Peter Bloch (Mainz, 1990), pp. 111-119.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 67 (cited).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 234.
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 151.