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Wing, right (fragment of a gabled polyptych), 2 registers (Front)
Wing, right (fragment of a gabled polyptych), 2 registers (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Rouen, Musée Départemental des Antiquités de la Seine-Maritime

Inv. 896

Ivory

Height: 248mm
Width: 39mm

Register 1: Nativity; swaddled Christ Child in manger.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Pointed trefoil in the spandrel.


Koechlin Number: 0132

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Joconde 2010: France, 2nd half of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
Collection of L. Billiard. Acquired by the museum in 1854.

Bibliography
A. Cochet, Catalogue du musée d'Antiquités de Rouen (Rouen 1868), p. 43.
A. Cochet, Catalogue du musée d'Antiquités de Rouen (Rouen 1875), p. 67.
J. Vernier, Musée des Antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure: guide du visiteur (Rouen, 1923), p. 26, pl. 35.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 124; II, no. 132.
Joconde, catalogue collectif des collections des musées de France: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm


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© cg76 - Musée départemental des Antiquités - Rouen. Photography: Yohann Deslandes.

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