Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Panel, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Panel, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Register 1: Virgin in clouds borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption). Coronation of the Virgin; angels.
Register 2: Miracle of the Cornfield; peasant; soldier in armour. Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents.
Register 3: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings. Flight into Egypt.
Crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 0883

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Alfred André. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan: gift of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. De-accessioned.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 330; II, no. 883.

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