Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; musician shepherd holding a shawm or a bell; two rams fighting.
Beaded border.
Koechlin 1912: France, 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Provenance
Baboin collection, Lyons (no. 16). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 16.
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.70, p. 24.
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