Gothic Ivories Project | Double-sided panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side 1)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side 1)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side 1)

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Side 2

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Ivory

Height: 78mm
Width: 52mm

Side 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; blessing gesture; two angels holding a cloth of honour.
Side 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0529

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner.
Worn. Red ivory.

Provenance
Collection of Paul Garnier: his sale, lot. 42.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 195, 210; II, no. 529.

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