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Koechlin 1906: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (hair; architectural details).

Reverse
Some parts carved in the round (see nack of the loincloth), rougher finish on the upper part of Christ's body, with some scoring, and lower part of his body flat, also with scoring.

Provenance
Collection of Carlo Micheli, Paris. Collection of Victor Martin Le Roy, Neuilly-sur-Seine (before 1900). Collection of Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot and heirs: sale, Christie's, Paris, Wednesday 16 November 2011, p. 86; purchased by the Musée du Louvre.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Les retables français en ivoire du commencement du XIVe', in Monuments Piot, 13 (1906), fig. 1.
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 24, pp. 57-58, pl. XIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 142, 144; II, no. 224; III, pl. LVII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), fig. 134a (in relation to no. 134).

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