Gothic Ivories Project | Lid of goldsmith scales and weights box, 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (boîte à poids et à balance; frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Nativity with Annunciation to the Shepherds; naked Christ; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; tree.
Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: Germany, end of 14th century.
Vitali 1976: German (?), end of 14th century.
Chiesi 2011: France, Meuse Valley, c. 1375-1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse with compartments for the weights (divisions have been leveled). Raised border.

Object Condition
Numerous cracks.
Missing: part of the background between the Virgin and the shepherd (replaced; more visible at the back).

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), pp. 232-233, no. 111.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 211, 225; II, no. 460; III, pl. LXXXVIII.
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), no. 43.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 444-453.

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