Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (part of a diptych), 3 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Back)

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; kneeling angels swinging censers; angel crowning the Virgin.
Register 2: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.
Register 3: seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angels holding candlesticks.
Border of dentils.

Westwood 1876: France, early 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Egbert 1929: Northern Italy, c. 1325.
Gaborit-Chopin in Paris 1991: Northern France, c. 1300 or early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Northern France, c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Missing: upper left corner. Broken around the hinges.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Comments
The left wing is now Cl. 21115. These two panels could correspond to two ivories used as part of a binding in the Saint-Denis Treasury and described in the 1534 inventory (but missing in the 1634 inventory), where they were described as 'table d'yvoire à trois estages, taillée à plusieurs personnages' (Paris 1991, p. 242).

Provenance
Treasury of Saint-Denis. Bought in 1852 at the Gansberg sale.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 408-409 ('54.75, `73.145).
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1099.
R. Koechlin, 'Les Diptyques à décor de roses', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1918), p. 239.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 157; II, no. 265; III, pl. LXIX.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), p. 16, in relation to no. 33.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 191, fig. 41].
D. Gaborit-Chopin, B. de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Le Trésor de Saint-Denis (Paris, 1973 and 1977), I, pp. 53-54; III, p. 133, pl. 114.
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1991, no. 49.

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