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Gabled triptych with painted wings (tabernacle; colonnettes) (Front)
Gabled triptych with painted wings (tabernacle; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;wood (wings);metal (hinges)

Height: 100mm
Width: 85mm (each); 190mm (open)

Wings
Standing angels.
Centre panel
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse).
Pinnacles.


Koechlin Number: 0114

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two ring hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Painted wings with angels virtually erased.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the gables.

Provenance
Collection of Victor Gay (b. 1820, d. 1887); collection of Mrs V. Gay; sold, Paris, 23 March 1909, lot 78, pl. II.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 86, 122; II, no. 114.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 61.


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