Inv. 71.248
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks; saint Catherine of Alexandria with martyr's palm and wheel; saint Clare as a nun holding a book, wearing a robe with knotted belt.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding
Object Condition
Missing: part of the background; candles.
Two holes on the upper edge.
Comments
Measurements in Koechlin seem to be wrong: 8.8mm x 4.6mm.
The right wing of this diptych is now in London at the Wallace Collection (Inv. S249). See related object.
Provenance
Collection of Edouard Aynard, Lyon: sold, Paris, 1 December 1913, lot 177. Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris in 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 201, 203, 263, II, no. 400; III, pl. LXXXV.
R. H. Randall, 'A Parisian Ivory Carver', in The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 38 (1980), pp. 60-69, fig. 1.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 153.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 291.
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