Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (part of a polyptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Register 1: Conversion of saint Paul on the road to Damascus.
Register 2: saint Peter and Simon the Magician.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Westwood 1876: France (?), 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: Paris, c. 1350-1360 (in relation to no. 253).
Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of blue and of bole for gold (especially in the hair and beards).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
Panel from a polyptych which was articulated in a concertina form and was at least composed of 6 panels.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 417 ('58.221).
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1064.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 178, 179; II, no. 344; III, pl. LXXIX.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), pp. 98-100.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 166.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 157.

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