Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 420

Ivory

Height: 155mm
Width: 70mm
Depth: 10mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm; sheep.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with inscription '1003', '420' and '13'.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 420.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1003.

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