Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower; crown.

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France or Rhineland, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Style of the Master of the Berlin Triptych (Berlin Master) (Gaborit-Chopin)

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (blue; see report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).

Reverse
Scratches for glue.
Inscriptions in ink: '7014' [crossed through], '2600'.
Labelled: '2600'.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Traces of hinges.
2 modern holes above the central hole.
Hollowed groove on the left side (may be related to a modern clasp).

Provenance
Collection of Louis-Charles Timbal, Paris (no. 49); acquired from him by the Museum in 1882.

Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 49.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 73.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203; II, no. 560; III, pl. XCVIII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 214.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 574-5, in relation to no. 168.

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