Gothic Ivories Project | Composite panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; assemblage of reliefs; appliqués) (Front)

Composite panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; assemblage of reliefs; appliqués) (Front)

Composite panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; assemblage of reliefs; appliqués) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 154 C

Ivory;bone;wood

Height: 288mm
Width: 187mm

Meeting at the Golden Gate (Meeting of Joachim and Anna); hanging purse.
In the background: annunciation of the birth of the Virgin to Anna by an angel; Joachim in the wilderness with his shepherds; hares running into their holes; trees. Two figures standing at the top of columns decorated with fleur-de-lys.
On a cornice between the pinnacles: Original Sin; Adam and Eve on either side of the Tree of Knowledge; snake with human head.
In the border: Tree of Jesse; Jesse asleep; prophets in bust; Virgin and Child at the apex; foliated scrolls (rinceaux).
Tracery; brickwork or tiled roof.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 15th century

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: gold (background; architectural details), green (background of the border).

Reverse
Intarsia alternating ivory, wood and bone tinted green.

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. 245-246, no. 154.

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