Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; two angels crowning the Virgin; Virgin trampling a monster.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, beginning of 14th century, c. 1300-1325.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Label with inscription: 'Cabinet Lambert instalation [sic] provisoire'.
Object Condition
In good condition. Hole in the lower part of the panel.
Provenance
Collection of Jacques-Amédée Lambert: his bequest to the Museum in 1850.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 199, 204; II, no. 415.
On Jacques-Amédée Lambert, see: J.-F. Garmier, 'Le Goût du Moyen Âge chez les collectionneurs lyonnais du XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art 47 (1980), p. 57 (where he is erroneously called Jacques-Antoine).
'Acquisitions du musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon 1990', in Bulletin des musées et monuments lyonnais, 1991, p. 55, fig. 20.
C. Briend, Les Objets d'Art: guide des collections. Musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon (Paris, 1993), p. 23.
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, pp. 155-156.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, p. 176.
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