Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel, 2 registers, 9 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel, 2 registers, 9 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel, 2 registers, 9 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 439a

Ivory

Height: 123mm
Width: 100mm

Register 1: Adoration of the Magi. Nativity; swaddled child. Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Register 2: Death of the Virgin (Dormition). Christ holding the soul of the Virgin (?); angels holding candlesticks. Assumption; Virgin in a mandorla borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption). Coronation of the Virgin.

Koechlin Number: 0865

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: French (?), last quarter of the 18th century-1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French (?), 19th century.

Attribution
Master of the Bearded Men Forgeries (Leeuwenberg)

Comments
This panel is part of the same ensemble as another piece also in the Musée de Cluny (Cl. 439b).

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

Bibliography
A. Du Sommerard, Les Arts du Moyen Âge (Paris, 1838-46), album: 2nd series, pl. XX.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1096.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 324; II, no. 865; III, pl. CLVI.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 142-143).

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