Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Adoration of the Magi; angel crowning the Virgin; angel swinging a censer.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with a male and female face in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Mallé 1969: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion: Paris, c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Broken near the lower hinge.

Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 103. Later inscription '103' (former Museum number), and in red '3230' (original Museum number used until ca. 1950).

Provenance
Acquired from Guglielmi in 1893.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 201, 212; II, no. 469.
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), pl. 132 (as Inv. 103).
Medioevo e produzione artistica di serie. Smalti di Limoges e avori gotici in Campania, ed. by P. Giusti, P. Leone de Castris, exhibition catalogue, Naples, Museo Duca di Martina, 1981, pp. 94-95.

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