Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Dijon 1917: France, 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France, c. 1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
A central hole (later) in the upper part of the panel has caused several vertical cracks.
Provenance
Collection of Henri and Sophie Grangier; Grangier bequest in 1905.
Bibliography
L. Gaitet, Catalogue de la collection Henri et Sophie Grangier: peintures, sculptures, meubles, objets d'art, exhibition catalogue, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1917, no. 131.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 32.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 11.
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