Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France, last quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (modern): blue (background).
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges chamfered.
Modern labels.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Comments
The left wing is now in the Musée de Cluny (Cl. 15322).
Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: Trimolet bequest, 1878.
Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 336.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 800.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 19.
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