Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd third of 14th century.
Paris 1981 and Santrot, Gaborit-Chopin 2011: Paris, c. 1320-1340.
Museum's opinion 2011: Paris, c. 1330-1350.
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (Paris), c. 1320-1330.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two hinges on either side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: painted trefoils in the wing gables, lining of the angels' cloaks, fruit held by Christ, hair.
Object Condition
Missing: candles and flower crowning the gable (replaced); upper part of the stem of flowers held by the Virgin. Back and right side of the lower edge of the centre panel restored.
Provenance
Collection of Lancelot Théodore, comte de Turpin Crissé (b. 1782, d. 1859); his bequest to the Museum in 1859.
Bibliography
L. de Farcy, 'Epaves', in Revue d'art chrétien, 4th series, no. 9 (1898), pp. 287-292, pl. XIV and XV, p. 291.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 115, p. 14.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. II. L'atelier des tabernacles de la Vierge', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 34 (1905), pp. 453-471, p. 455.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 122; II, no. 117.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 95.
L'Europe gothique, XIIe-XIVe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1968, no. 362.
French Art in the Middle Age, exhibition catalogue, Québec-Montréal, 1972-1973, no. 41.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 150.
L'Art du Moyen Age en France, exhibition catalogue, Prague and Bratislava, 1978-1979, no. 63.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 140.
J. Santrot and D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Le Don Seligman au musée Dobrée: un ivoire parisien du XIVe siècle', in La Revue des musées de France. Revue du Louvre (January 2011), pp. 43-55 (fig. 9, pp. 47-48).
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 70, in relation to no. 8.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 60 and 61.
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