Apostle holding a cross and a book (saint Jude or saint Matthias?).
Saint Bartholomew with a flaying knife.Saint Paul holding a sword.
Apostle holding flames (unidentified).
Scrolls.
Koechlin 1924: Burgundy, mid-15th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1999: Burgundy, early 15th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris or Burgundy, c. 1400 or early 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (blue, green, orange minium; see report by B. Guineau, 1995, and report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1988).
Object Condition
Openwork ivory, broken in several places.The ivories had been placed on pieces of parchment stuck and inserted onto a wooden panel (19th century), which had warped, causing cracks and breaks. The ivories were removed in 1988 and placed simply on a gilt background.
Provenance
Collection of Mr Goldschmidt; acquired from Mr Goldschmidt, Paris, 1906.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 342; II, no. 960; III, pl. CLXVI.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Une Pitié Nostre Seigneur d'ivoire', in Festschrift für Peter Bloch (Mainz, 1990), p. 113, fig. 4.
B. Guineau, 'Etude des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1996), pp. 93, 196, 199.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Les Ivoires au XVe siècle', in Art et société en France au XVe siècle, dir. C. Prigent (Paris, 1999), pp. 251-258 (p. 256, fig. 2).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 237.
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 127.
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