Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Curved, smooth with some scoring. Ink inscription: 'No. 66'. Label with inscription: '395'.

Object Condition
Missing: left hand of the right hand side executioner; two fingers of the right hand of the left hand side executioner are partly broken.

Comments
Fragment of an altarpiece.

Provenance
Collection of Carlo Micheli (d. 1895?), Paris: sold with the rest of his collection in 1898 by his daughter, Marie Micheli, to Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (b. 1858, d. 1901), Antwerp; upon his death, his mother Henriëtte had a purpose-built museum erected (1901-1904) to house his collection.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Les retables français en ivoire du commencement du XIVe siècle', in Monuments et Mémoires Fondation Piot 13 (1906), pp. 68-70, pl. VII, no. 3.
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), p. 58.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 142, 144; II, no. 226; III, pl. LVIII.
J. De Coo, Catalogue du Musée Mayer van den Bergh (Antwerp, 1933), no. 395, p. 41.
J. De Coo, 'L'ancienne collection Micheli au Musée Mayer van den Bergh', in Gazette des Beaux Arts (Dec. 1965), no. 185.
W. D. Wixom, Treasures of Medieval France, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967, no. 17, p. 246.
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D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age occidental (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 226.
J. De Coo, Fritz Mayer van den Bergh: de verzamelaar, de verzameling (Antwerp, 1979), pp. 136- 137.
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H. Westermann-Angerhausen, Schatz aus den Trümmern: der Silberschrein von Nivelles und die europäische Hochgotik, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, 1995-1996, p. 366, no. 45.
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D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), fig. 135a.
Les premiers retables, XIIe-début du XVe siècle : une mise en scène du sacré, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 10 April-6 July 2009, dir. by P.-Y. Le Pogam and C. Vivet-Peclet, pp. 130-131, no. 30.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].