Nativity (Virgo Lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Border of dentils.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1330.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Provenance
Sulzbach collection, Paris (in 1924). Von Bonstetten collection, Noville. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 211, 212; II, no. 461; III, pl. LXXXVIII.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.60, p. 22.
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