Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Engraving, front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Engraving, front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Engraving, front)

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 205mm
Width: 116mm

Kneeling king with hands in prayer (possibly Louis XI); cushion; coat of arms of the king of France (fleur-de-lys); crown; sword; background with fleur-de-lys pattern.
Foliated decoration in the spandrels.

Molinier 1890: France, 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 161.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 126 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 340, n. 1.

Image

Out of copyright. From E. Molinier, La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890).

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