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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Abbeville, Musée Boucher-de-Perthes

Inv. 2006.6.0.7 (unlocated)

Ivory

Height: 103mm
Width: 61mm

Two seated apostles.


Koechlin Number: 0846bis

Delignières 1902: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: late 18th or early 19th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Northern France or Mosan, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Not seen.

Object Condition
Missing: hands (in 1969).

Comments
This relief is certainly part of the same Last Supper scene as three seated apostles now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Inv. 211-1867) (see Willamson and Davies 2014).

Provenance
In the Abbeville collection by 1900; unlocated since 2006.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 163.
E. Delignières, Catalogue du Musée d'Abbeville et du Ponthieu (Paris, 1902), no. 857.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 307-308; II, no. 846bis.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 116, fig. 11).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 39, fig. 2.


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