Adoration of the Magi; angel holding a navette and swinging a censer.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.
Bertaux 1913: French, early 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Band with crosshatching along the inner side of the reverse of the panel.
Modern labels including a blue and white label with handwritten inscription '513' (Bertaux number); gold and white label with handwritten inscription 'H.6' (?).
Object Condition
Lower border chipped.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Acquired before 1913.
Bibliography
É. Bertaux, Musée Jacquemart-André: Catalogue itinéraire (Paris, 1913), no. 513.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 212; II, no. 473.
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