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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Relief (appliqué) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Amiens, Musée de Picardie

Inv. M.P.3063.547

Ivory

Width: 153 mm
Depth: 13 mm

Nativity; swaddled Christ; ox; ass.


Koechlin Number: 0723

Migeon 1906: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: pattern along the hem of the bed cover.

Object Condition
Two holes along the left edge.

Provenance
Collection Albert Maignan (b. 1845, d. 1908); bequeathed by Maignan to the museum in 1908, but entered the collections in 1927.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 60.
G. Migeon, 'La Collection Albert Maignan ', in Les Arts 59 (Nov. 1906), pp. 3-16 (p. 9).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 261, 262, 264; II, no. 723; III, pl. CXIX.
A. Roze, 'La collection Maignan-Larivière, Musée de PIcardie', in Bulletin des Musées de France 12 (December 1929), pp. 284-287.
Exposition d'art sacré ancien et moderne, exhibition catalogue, Amiens, 15 May-6 June 1948, no. 24.


Image

© Collection du Musée de Picardie, Amiens (photo Jean Louis Boutillier / Musée de Picardie).

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