Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 2 registers (fragment of a diptych or triptych) (Front)

Panel, 2 registers (fragment of a diptych or triptych) (Front)

Panel, 2 registers (fragment of a diptych or triptych) (Front)

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Auxerre, Treasury of Saint-Etienne cathedral

Inv. 55

Ivory

Height: 113mm
Width: 39mm

Register 1: Saint Catherine of Alexandria with sword and wheel, trampling emperor Maxentius or with her severed head at her feet.
Register 2: saint John the Baptist.

Inventaire 1892: Spain, 15th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1992 (unpublished): 15th or 16th century.
Palissy 2012: Spain, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (saint John the Baptist).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Illegible inscription on the reverse.

Provenance
In the Treasury of the Cathedral by 1892.

Bibliography
M. Bonneau, M. Monceaux, M. F. Molard, Inventaire du trésor de la cathédrale d'Auxerre (Auxerre, 1892), no. 55.
Palissy database: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr [accessed June 2012].

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