Seated Virgin and Child; musician angels (string instruments including a rebec); throne decorated with tracery.
Dijon 1917: France, 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: right side of the panel.
Chipped along the edges. Vertical crack down the middle of the panel.
Comments
This piece may have been the left wing of a diptych. The hinges would have been on the right side which has now broken off.
Provenance
Collection of Henri Baudot: his sale, Dijon, 1894. Collection of Henri and Sophie Grangier; Grangier bequest in 1905.
Bibliography
L. Gaitet, Catalogue de la collection Henri et Sophie Grangier: peintures, sculptures, meubles, objets d'art, exhibition catalogue, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1917, no. 127.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 14.
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