Inv. 969.7.38
Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels swinging censers; angel crowning the Virgin.
Border of dentils.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges chamfered.
Labels with inscriptions: 'COLLECTION DU DR P. THOBY NANTES VII'; 'EXPOSITION D'ART RELIGIEUX 1933, LA PSALLETTE DE NANTES, 307': '46'; '30'; 'FX'.
Object Condition
Vertical crack on the right side. Broken around the lower hinge. Cracks. Patina. White residues.
Missing: part of the right hand side column.
Provenance
Collection of H. Garnier, Paris (bought from Kélékian, who had brought it back from New York); collection of Dr. Paul Thoby, Nantes (bought from Garnier on 25 October 1925; no. VII in Thoby's Collection): his bequest to the museum, 1969.
Bibliography
P. Thoby, carnet n° 48, Ivoires, Dossier Thoby, Archives du musée Dobrée [s.d.; handwritten], no. VII.
Exposition d'art religieux à la Psallette, exhibition catalogue, Nantes, Psallette de Nantes, 1933, no. 307.
Art et liturgie au Moyen Âge, exhibition catalogue, Angoulême, Chambéry, Caen, Nantes, Nice, December 1976-January 1978, p. 45, no. 136, pl. XII (Nantes); no. 32 (Caen).
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