Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of roses (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of roses (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of roses (décor de roses) (Front)

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Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame

MAD IL.54

Ivory

Height: 96mm
Width: 54mm
Depth: 8mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; Visitation.
Border of dentils. Engraved inscription (later): 'AVE MARIA BENED'.

Koechlin Number: 0262

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, atelier au décor de roses, early 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side. Spacing of hinges: 00, 30, 40, 100, 110, 139 mm.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels: '874' and 'kgm 3'(?).

Provenance
Bequest of Alexandre Straub (1825-1891), in 1893.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective d'Alsace et de Lorraine, exhibition catalogue, Strasbourg, 1895, p. 41, no. 346.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 158; II, no. 262.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 224, in relation to no. 69.

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