Christ led away by soldiers (arrest of Christ); soldiers in armour.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th century or early 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Spain (?), 1st half of the 14th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Smooth, slightly convex.
Object Condition
Chips to the beard of Christ and the base. Two holes.
Comments
May be related to a relief depicting the Betrayal also in the Louvre (OA 7869).
Provenance
Collection of Maillet du Boulay, before 1889. Collection of Félix Doistau, Paris (in 1900); gift of Félix Doistau, 1919.
Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de l'Art français au Trocadéro, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Trocadéro, 1889, no. 108.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 68.
Les Accroissements des musées français (sous la direction d'Henri Rivière), III, Le Musée du Louvre en 1920. Dons, legs et acquisitions (Paris-New York: Demotte, 1921), pl. 47.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 64; II, no. 27; III, pl. XI.
M. Carrà, Gli avori in Occidente (Milan, 1966), fig. 57.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 195.
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