Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France, late 18th century or 1st half of the 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: hair, frame, architectural details, vase.
Reverse
Back of the ivory not visible.
Inscription in white on the back of the frame: 'Collection Gillot. XIVeme siecle'. Label with inscription: 'MA 125'.
Object Condition
Lower border broken, between the vase and the Virgin.
Provenance
Collection of Charles Gillot (b. 1853, d. 1903), Paris (see inscription on the back of the frame). Christie's, London, 4-5 March 2008, lot 213. Christie's London, 8 December 2011, lot 208; private collection, London (in 2012).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 320; II, no. 854.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 130, 1322, fig. 33).
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