Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée), 2 registers (Front)

Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée), 2 registers (Front)

Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée), 2 registers (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints. Life of the Virgin.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 1839

Ivory;wood (later panel)

Height: 67mm
Width: 70mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; onlookers; rugged cross. Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; angel swinging a censer.
Register 2: saint Louis; saint Andrew; saint Denis. Saint Agnes; saint Anthony; saint George and the dragon.

Koechlin Number: 0868

Labarte 1847: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 19th century (?).

Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)

Reverse
Affixed onto a wooden panel.

Comments
This panel is part of the same ensemble as another piece also in the Musée de Cluny (Cl. 1840).

Provenance
Debruge-Duménil collection: sold, Paris, January-March 1849, lot 153, to the Museum.

Bibliography
J. Labarte, Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge-Duménil (Paris, 1847), no. 153, p. 456.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1083.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 324; II, no. 868.

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