Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette) (CAST, front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette) (CAST, front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette) (CAST, front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 91mm
Width: 58mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Border of dentils; pierced trefoils; pinnacles.

Koechlin Number: 0492

Koechlin 1924: France (?), late 14th or early 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century and the photograph on this page is a photograph of this cast (Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 242).

Provenance
Collection of Sir Andrew Fountaine (b. 1676, d. 1753), Norfolk, England (no. 521).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 213; II, no. 492.

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