Saint Paul with sword.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 1st third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding (modern, see Guineau 1996 and unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1996).
Reverse
Edge of the ivory pulp cavity visible.
Object Condition
Scratches for glue. Hole in the lower part.
Comments
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 argues that this and a Louvre standing Virgin and Child relief (OA 11269) came from a single work, perhaps a wood polyptych or triptych.
Provenance
Sold at Christie's, London, 9 April 1987, lot 38. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Didier Lazard-Martenot to the Musée du Louvre in 1988.
Bibliography
'Acquisitions', in Revue du Louvre, 1988-4, p. 334.
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (1985-1989), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1990, no. 21, fig.
B. Guineau, 'Etude des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1996), pp. 188-210.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 145.
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