Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork medallion (médaillon ajouré) (Front)

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; Christ making a blessing gesture; two kneeling angels swinging censers; angel crowning the Virgin.
Register 2: Resurrection; Christ making a blessing gesture; three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France or Burgundy, 1st quarter of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Ivory broken and stuck back together.
Missing: parts of the border (in upper-right), the edge of one of the angels' wings.

Comments
Kept in a modern leather case, lined with red fabric.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 252); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 252.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 90.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 101.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 238.
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 125.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 610-11, in relation to no. 188.

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