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

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (minute: gold, red, blue; see unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).

Object Condition
Missing: upper and side borders, left hand of the Virgin.

Comments
The fragment may have been set in a metal mount which would allow the work to be used as a pax (baiser de paix), perhaps the cause of the wear to the sculpted surfaces.

Provenance
Collection of Mrs. Francis Hervouet, Paris; bequest of Mrs. Hervouet to the Museum in 1994.

Bibliography
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (1990-1994), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1995, no. 25, fig.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 167.

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