Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

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Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 15335

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 57mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels crowning the Virgin; two tonsured monks kneeling in donor position.
Rosettes in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2010: Northern France or Flemish, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Vertical crack through the middle.

Provenance
Collection of François-Achille Wasset (at least from 1866): Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9706).

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 333.
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 15, p. 5.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1979), no. 15, p. 12.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013),

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