Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels swinging censers.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid-14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd quarter or middle of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (modern).
Reverse
Labelled: 'A 43', 'Mol 67'.
Object Condition
Break in lower left section.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 228); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 228.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 43.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 67.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 202; II, no. 548.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 186.
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