Inv. B 3933
Noli me tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); Christ holding a banner or a spade; ointment pot; tree.
Brickwork or tiled roof; crosshatched background.
Brouillet 1885: 1st half of the 16th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: hair, halo, architectural details, along the hems.
Reverse
Curved.
Provenance
Gué gift (before 1885; Mr Gué seems to have been usher at the Poitiers préfecture).
Bibliography
P.-A. Brouillet, Notice des tableaux, dessins, gravures, statues, objets d'art anciens et modernes, curiosités, etc. composant les collections de la ville (Poitiers, 1885), no. 3933 (mistakenly recognised as a Doubting Thomas).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 333; II, no. 917 (same error as Brouillet regarding the iconography).
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