Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 385

Ivory;wood (later frame)

Height: 53mm
Width: 40mm (without frame)

Saint Michael and the devil (?); saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Brussels 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the wooden frame. Erased inscription.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 325 (in relation to no. 868).
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 291.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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