Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled panel (fragment from a polyptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across (tabernacle) (Front)

Gabled panel (fragment from a polyptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across (tabernacle) (Front)

Gabled panel (fragment from a polyptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across (tabernacle) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 183mm
Width: 33mm

Koechlin Number: 0162

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: painted trefoils in the spandrels.

Comments
This piece was originally the outermost left wing of a polyptych or tabernacle.

Provenance
Emile Lévy collection, Paris: his sale, Drouot, Paris, 14 December 1928, lot 4.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 129; II, no. 162 (in Lévy collection).

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