Gothic Ivories Project | Wings, right (fragments of a polyptych or tabernacle), 3 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

Wings, right (fragments of a polyptych or tabernacle), 3 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

Wings, right (fragments of a polyptych or tabernacle), 3 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
www.musees.angers.fr

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Angers, Musée des Beaux-Arts

MA 82 68 1

Ivory

Height: 232mm
Width: 150mm

Left
Register 1: saint Paul holding a sword.
Register 2: saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel.
Register 3: unidentified male saint holding a vessel.
Right
Register 1: saint Bartholomew with a flaying knife.
Register 2: saint James the Lesser with a fuller's club.
Register 3: saint Simon with a saw.
Crosshatched background.

Koechlin Number: 0961

Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two hinges.

Comments
These panels once formed the right wings of a tabernacle, with a Virgin and Child at its centre.

Provenance
Collection of Pierre-Jean David, known as 'David d'Angers' (b. 1788, d. 1856), sculptor: his bequest to the Museum.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 342; II, no. 961.

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