Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across, band of rosettes (plaquette; décor de roses) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across, band of rosettes (plaquette; décor de roses) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across, band of rosettes (plaquette; décor de roses) (Front)

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Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland

Inv. A.1893.493

Ivory

Height: 114mm
Width: 80mm
Depth: 6mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two kneeling angels holding navettes and swinging censers; two angels crowning the Virgin.
Musician angels in the spandrels (psaltery; string instrument).
Beaded arch. Corbels in the shape of monsters.

Museum's opinion 2015: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Two sets of long incisions in the left edge (visible from the back). Label with the inscription: 'On loan from C. H. Buchler 1883'.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Two sets of long incisions in the left edge (visible from the back).

Provenance
Collection C. H. Buchler (on loan to the museum in 1883). Acquired by the museum in 1893.

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