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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Wing, left)
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Front

Wing, right

Front

Front, open

Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 109

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 114mm
Width: 87mm
Depth: 8mm (each panel)

Wing, left
Adoration of Christ Child (Nativity).
Wing, right
Adoration of the Magi.
Crosshatched background. Border with roped pattern.

Dieppe 2005: Northern France, 1st third of the 16th century.
Malgouyres 2010: French, beginning of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy (blue, red, green) and gilding. Probably later.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Acquired by Charles Sauvageot in 1831 ('1029. Diptyque en ivoire. La crèche et l'adoration des mages 45[fr.]'); Donation to the Museum by Sauvageot in 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no.225.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Série A., Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. A.45, p.12.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 154, p. 299.
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie. I: Les Ivoires (Paris, 1896), p.216.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 353.
Ivoires du Musée du Louvre 1480-1850: une collection inédite, exhibition catalogue, Dieppe, Château-Musée de Dieppe, 2005, no. 7, pp.52-53.
P. Malgouyres, Ivoires de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes. La Collection du Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2010), no. 56.


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