Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych or polyptych) (Front)

Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych or polyptych) (Front)

Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych or polyptych) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 22606

Ivory

Height: 147mm
Width: 63mm

Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; saint John the Evangelist; two angels swinging censers.

Koechlin Number: 0205

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Four holes, three of which (originally for hinges) have been plugged with ivory (visible only from the back, as they do not pierce the thickness of the panel).
Missing: crockets along the gable.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: sold, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 466 (purchased by Larcade). Bought in 1953 from Salmann.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 137, 144; II, no. 205; III, pl. XLVII.

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