Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment) (Front)

Creation of Eve; Adam; God the Father making a blessing gesture.
Border of palmettes.

Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: late 13th century?

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: the background has been carved out.

Comments
This panel is part of the same ensemble as a panel formerly in the Gillot collection featuring God warning Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge (see Koechlin 1924 and Gaborit-Chopin 2003, fig. 118a).

Provenance
Baron Jean-Charles Davillier collection; bequest of J.-Ch. Davillier, 1883.

Bibliography
L. Courajod & E. Molinier, Donation du baron Charles Davillier. Catalogue des objets exposés au musée du Louvre (Paris, 1885), no. 43.
E. Molinier, Catalogue des ivoires. Musée national du Louvre (Paris, 1896), no. 45.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 64, II, no. 26, II, pl. XII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 118.

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