Register 1: Carrying of the Cross; man holding nails; man holding a hammer.
Register 2: Visitation.
Register 3: Adoring Magi (fragment of Adoration of the Magi).
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1310-1320.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on either side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (not original, see unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1996).
Reverse
Marked in ink 'no. 1 [?] 44', in pencil 'no. 72'.
Object Condition
MIssing: upper part has been cut out. Small chips around hinges, on either side.
Comments
This panel once was to the left of the central part of a tabernacle such as Koechlin 176.
Provenance
Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot collection, Paris (no. 229); gift of A. Sauvageot to the Musée du Louvre in 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 229.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 44.
E. Molinier, Catalogue des ivoires. Musée national du Louvre (Paris, 1896), no. 72.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 134; II, no. 179.
B. Guineau, 'Études des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la société nationale d'art français, 1996, pp. 188-210.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 124.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 558, in relation to no. 160.
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