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Relief (appliqué) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

E 500-88

Ivory

Height: 92mm
Width: 60mm

Apostles asleep; open book (part of an Agony in the garden scene; Christ at Gethsemane).


Koechlin Number: 0735

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (original? red for the lining of the coat of one of the apostles, and in the mouth of the central apostle; gold in the hair).

Reverse
Flat and smooth; crosshatching in the lower half of the panel.
Label with handwritten inscription: 'Legs Giraud Ch. 43. E.500-863'.

Object Condition
Modern hole under the chin of one of the apostles (possibly for hanging).

Provenance
Jean-Baptiste Giraud collection, Lyon: bequest of J.-B. Giraud in 1911.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 262, 288; II, no. 735.


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