Side 1: head of Christ.
Side 2: head of a lady; elaborate headdress.
Foliated decoration.
Sauzay 1863: 16th century.
Molinier 1896: France or Flanders, early 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: Flanders or Northern France, 1st third of the 16th century.
Châlons-en-Champagne 2007 and Malgouyres 2010: France (?), 19th century in a 16th-century style (before 1835).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Collection of Charles Sauvageot (acquired in 1835; mentioned as '1483. tête double du Christ et de la Vierge en ivoire. Pièce terminant 1 chapelet ou chevalière 20 f. crochet en argent 3 f. 20 [fr.]'); gift of C. Sauvageot to the Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 290, p. 69.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. A. 117, p. 40.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 149, p. 293.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 449; II, no. 1235; III, pl. CCI.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Rutland-Tokyo, 1966), p. 347.
Histoires d'ivoire. Collections du Musée du Louvre et des musées de Châlons-en-Champagne, exhibition catalogue, Châlons-en-Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, 2007-2008, no. 79.
P. Malgouyres, Ivoires de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes. La Collection du Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2010), no. 270.
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