Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding

Reverse
Carved in the round. Label with Micheli number '232'.

Object Condition
MMB.0439.1-2:
Missing: right hand.
MMB.0439.2-2:
Missing: wings, fingers are broken.

Comments
These two angels belong to a Coronation group (see related objects) which would have been integrated in an architectural setting. The group may have included more figures.

Provenance
Collection of Carlo Micheli (d. 1895?), Paris (no. 232): sold with the rest of his collection in 1898 by his daughter, Marie Micheli, to Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (b. 1858, d. 1901), Antwerp; upon his death, his mother Henriëtte had a purpose-built museum erected (1901-1904) to house his collection.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 57, n. 5; II, no. 17.
J. De Coo, Catalogue du Musée Mayer van den Bergh (Antwerp, 1933), no. 394.
J. De Coo, 'L'ancienne collection Micheli au Musée Mayer van den Bergh', in Gazette des Beaux Arts (Dec. 1965), no. 232.
J. De Coo, Museum Mayer Van den Bergh, Catalogus 2. Beeldhouwkunst, plaketten, antiek (Antwerp, 1969), nos. 2088-2089.
J. De Coo, Fritz Mayer van den Bergh: de verzamelaar, de verzameling (Antwerp, 1979), pp. 124-125.
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1991, p. 236, fig. 6.
H. Westermann-Angerhausen, Schatz aus den Trümmern: der Silberschrein von Nivelles und die europäische Hochgotik, exhibition collection, Cologne, 1995-1996, pp. 354-355, no. 39.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), fig. 99a (in relation to no. 99).
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].