Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Legend of the Death of the Virgin.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 10009

Ivory

Height: 106mm
Width: 63mm
Depth: 6mm

Register 1: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.
Register 2: Funeral procession of the Virgin; the high priest Jechonias is punished for trying to overturn Mary's bier: his hands stick to it; soldier in armour.

Koechlin Number: 0217

Bertaux 1912: France, end of the 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Spain?, last third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (modern).

Reverse
Labelled: '21', '...217'.

Object Condition
Small chips around the hinges.
Modern hole in upper-centre.

Provenance
Treasury of the church of El Piño, Barcelona (according to Claudius Côte); Claudius Côte collection, Lyon (no. 1); bequest of Mrs. C. Côte, 1961.

Bibliography
E. Bertaux, Quelques pièces de la collection Claudius Côte (Lyon, 1912), plate XVII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 140, note 1; II, no. 217; III, pl. LIV.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 225.

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