Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 441

Ivory

Height: 145mm
Width: 94mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; cruciform halo.
Medallions containing trefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0830

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper corners.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1101.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 302; II, no. 830.

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