Cl. 430
Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon. Kneeling angel supporting the volute.
Foliated decoration: ivy leaves.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Natanson 1951: French, c. 1330-1340.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: France (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Paris 1981: France (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), c. 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand and left arm of the kneeling angel; left side of the cross. Broken knop.
Comments
Made of two pieces of ivory.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.
Bibliography
A. Du Sommerard, Les Arts du Moyen Âge (Paris, 1838-46), album: 10th series, pl. XV.
Abbé Barrault, A. Martin, Le Bâton pastoral. Etude archéologique (Paris, 1856), pl. XIX (accessible online: http://purl.pt/6447/4/ba-502-a_PDF/ba-502-a_PDF_01-B-R0150/ba-502-a_0000_capa1-capa4_t01-B-R0150.pdf accessed June 2009).
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1067.
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie. I: Les Ivoires (Paris, 1896), p. 194.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 3, 271, 272, 275; II, no. 772; III, pl. CXXVII.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), p. 36, fig. 37.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 236.
Chefs d'oeuvres des musées du Louvre, de Cluny et d'Ecouen, exhibition catalogue, Moscow and Leningrad, 1979, p. 32.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 149.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 447, fig. 1, in relation to no. 154.
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