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Diptych, 2 registers (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Lives of saints.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7491

Ivory;silver (hinges)

Height: 80mm
Width: 63mm
Depth: 5mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Dispute of saint Catherine of Alexandria with fifty philosophers.
Register 2: Saint Catherine of Alexandria is tortured on a wheel with iron spikes; the wheel is destroyed by a thunderbolt from heaven; hand of God; Emperor Maxentius.
Wing, right
Register 1: Emperor Maxentius ordering the fifty philosophers to be burned alive.
Register 2: Saint Catherine of Alexandria is beheaded; Emperor Maxentius; the body of saint Catherine of Alexandria is carried to Mount Sinai by angels.

Koechlin Number: 0347bis

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Comments
The iconography follows the Golden Legend by Jacques de Voragine.

Provenance
Collection of Auguste Picard, Paris (received in 1909 from Mr. Piet-Lataudrie); gift of Auguste Picard, 1921.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'La collection Victor Gay aux musées nationaux', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, May 1909, pp. 7-8, fig. p. 6.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 180, II, no. 347 bis.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 209.

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