Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks; blessing hand of God.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; two angels crying.

Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair; crown; along the hems, candlesticks), red (blood; architectural details), green (crown of thorns).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: Trimolet bequest, 1878.

Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 339.
J.-C. and M. Bonnet, La Vie quotidienne à la fin du Moyen Age, d'après quelques oeuvres du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, 1982), series of 12 slides with commentary, view no. 11, commentary on pp. 26-27.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 16.

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