Inv. 105 C
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; two angels crowning the Virgin, standing on the sides of the bench.
Pointed trefoil in the gable.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Chiesi 2011: France or Rhineland, c. 1350-1375.
Attribution
Style of the Master of the Berlin Triptych (Berlin Master)(Chiesi 2011)
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: apex of the gable. Chipped along the lower edge.
Comments
The right wing of this diptych is also in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Inv. 106 C).
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
U. Rossi, 'La Collezione Carrand al Museo Nazionale del Bargello', in Archivio Storico dell'arte II (1889), p. 16.
I.B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 229, no. 105.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires Gothiques Français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 220; II, no. 556.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 384-392.
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