Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendants with horses.
Koechlin 1912: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Southern Germany, c. 1350-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Provenance
Yanville collection: his sale, 1901 (?), lot 25 (see Paris, Bibliothèque du Musée des arts décoratifs, Maciet Album 325/10-91). Emile Baboin collection, Lyons (lot 17). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyons, 1912), no. 17.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 280, 282; II, no. 786; III, pl. CXXXIII.
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.104, p. 30.
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