Saint Avia in prison receiving communion from the Virgin; God the Father blessing and holding the orb and cross; angel; chalice; host; unidentified kneeling female figure.
Crosshatched border with carved inscription: 'DESIR ME VAILLE'.
Dijon 1961: late 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France, early 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror. Crosshatched border with carved inscription: 'DESIR ME VAILLE'.
Object Condition
Worn.
Comments
This piece was enclosed in a fabric purse on which the words 'Bonnes nouvelles' were embroidered. This motto belonged to Bègue de Lannoy (Maurice 1983; see H. Tausin, Dictionnaire des devises nobiliaires et historiques (Paris, 1895), vol. I).
Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: donated by them to the Museum in 1878.
Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 342.
Le goût du gothique chez les collectionneurs du XIXe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1961, no. 49.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 22.
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