Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy: blue for the coats of the Virgin and Saint Michael, red for the coat of Saint Margaret, the Virgin's robe and the wings of Saint Michael, the ground and dragons were green. See unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1998.

Object Condition
Missing: large part of the original border.
Ivory broken between saint Michael and the Virgin.
The medallion has been consolidated by the insertion of an ivory box, visible on the back.
Modern wooden frame.

Comments
The ivory figures are set against a background of gild paper or parchment onto which small fragments of blue and green feathers have been glued.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 250); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), 250.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 88.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 125.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 235.
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 122.
Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2012, no. 9 (E. Antoine).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 156.