Side 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; saint John the Evangelist holding a book with both hands.
Side 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks. Kneeling angel supporting the volute.
Foliated decoration: ivy or vine leaves.
Koechlin 1924: 2nd half of 14th century.
Catalogue 1925: France, 14th century.
Paris 1958: 2nd half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in round.
Object Condition
Pierced with six holes for precious stones (tbc).
Provenance
From the Duomo of Città di Castello (Koechlin 1924). Castellani sale, April 1879. Collection of Auguste Dutuit, Paris: Dutuit bequest to the Museum in 1902.
Bibliography
La Collection Dutuit, in Les Arts,tbc, pp. 1-46 (repr. p. 41).
G. Cain, La collection Dutuit. Histoire de la collection (Paris, 1903), I, p. 29; II, repr.
H. Lapauze, Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit. Notice Historique sur les Frères Dutuit (Paris, 1907), no. 1276, p. 247.
La Collection Dutuit: Cent planches reproduisant les principales Oeuvres d'art exposées au Petit Palais des Champs-Elysées, 2 vols (Paris, c. 1910), I, pl. XXV
U. Gnoli, 'Avori francesi di Perugia', in Bolletino d'arte, 13 (1919), fig. 8.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 271, 272, 274; II, no. 768.
Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit, précédé d'une notice sur les frères Dutuit (Paris, 1925), no. 1333.
La Vierge dans l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit-Palais, 1950, tbc
S. Kahn and A. Marvaud-Braunwald, Hommage aux grands donateurs du Petit Palais, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1958, pl. 16.
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