Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels swinging censers.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Labelled: '7'.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked and browned (large open cracks). Chips to the left-hand angel's hand and the hinges.
Missing: pieces at bottom right and left; crown; chains of the censers.
Two modern holes, in middle of upper part.
Early restorations.

Comments
The left wing of this diptych was formerly in the collection of Napoléon and Marie-Aimée Amiel-Le Caron de Fleury. See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Claudius Côte, Lyon; bequest of Mme C. Côte to the Museum in 1962.

Bibliography
H. Landais, 'La collection Claudius Côte. Département des Objets d'art', in Revue du Louvre (1961), p. 130.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 157.

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