Adoration of the Magi; Virgin holding a flower; throne with a canopy decorated with quatrefoils.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels and gables.
Koechlin 1924: German in a French style (?), late 14th or early 15th century or 19th century (?).
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: German (Rhineland?), late 14th or early 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back not visible: covered by the copper mount. Copper handle indicating this panel was later used as a pax.
Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: donated by them to the Museum in 1878.
Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 344.
H. Kehrer, Die heiligen drei Könige in Literatur und Kunst (Leipzig, 1908-1909), II, fig. 181, p. 162.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 208, 213; II, no. 494.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 32.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 20.
C. Vivet-Peclet, Les baisers de paix en ivoire de la fin du Moyen Âge dans les collections publiques françaises (unpublished dissertation, École du Louvre, Paris, 1994), vol. 1, p. 70, no. 2 ; vol. 2, Pl. III et IIIbis
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