Inv. 9 A
Register 1: Crucifixion with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; 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 bagpipes.
Beaded border.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Chiesi 2011: German (Middle Rhineland), last quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Koechlin 1924)
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Inscriptions: cancelled '63', 'Dalla Guardaroba Dei Pitti 20 Maggio 1774'.Blue and white labels with inscriptions: 'no. 193' (number corresponding to an undated inventory) and '246'[? half erased], '8 A' [?, half erased].Small label on the edge with inscription: '2254' (corresponds to its number in the 1825 inventory of the Galleria Reale).
Object Condition
Missing: part of the background in the lower register.
Provenance
Collection of Canon Apollonio Bassetti, secretary of Cosimo III: his bequest to the Galleria Reale housing the Medici collection in September 1699; in the Palazzo Pitti until 20 May 1774 (see inscription on the back); became part of the collection of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello on 11 May 1879.
Bibliography
A. Campani, Guida per il visitatore del R. Museo Nazionale nell'antico palazzo del Potestà in Firenze (Florence, 1884), p. 124.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 368.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ivoires gothiques français connus antérieurement au XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art Chrétien 41 (1911), pp. 387-402, fig. 17.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 304; II, no. 835.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 468-475.
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