Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket or box?), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket or box?), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette; coffret) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket or box?), 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaquette; coffret) (Front)

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Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire

12272

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 58mm
Depth: 2mm

Saint Nicholas as a bishop, resurrecting the three children standing in a tub.
Crosshatched background. Pinnacles. Brickwork or tiled roof.

Piano 2007: French (Ile-de-France), c. 1470-1500.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Comments
This panel probably came from the same object as 12274, also in the Geneva Musée d'art et d'histoire collection.

Provenance
Bequest of Alice Baird, Geneva, 1926 (via Mr Baird and Mrs van Muyden-Baird, her heirs).

Bibliography
N. Piano, 'La Collection d'ivoires médiévaux du musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève', in Genava LV (2007), pp. 127-157 (p. 150, no. 5).

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