Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 2686
Saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment pot or saint Clare holding a pyxis; seated Virgin and Child; saint Agnes with a lamb and book; two angels crowning the Virgin; two angels swinging censers.
Throne decorated with pinnacles and tracery.
Pointed trefoils. Beaded border.
Destrée 1902: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924 and Brussels 1964: France, end of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (lining of cloaks) and gilding (preparatory layer).
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Pencil inscription: '68'.
Object Condition
Deep vertical cracks especially visible from the back.
Provenance
Collection of Eugen Felix, Cologne: sale, Cologne, 25 October 1886, lot 318; bought by the museum at this sale.
Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 25 (9183).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 208, 219; II, no. 622.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 287.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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