Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers

Diptych, 2 registers

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
www.ville-cherbourg.fr

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Cherbourg-Octeville, Musée Thomas Henry

Unlocated

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 170mm
Width: 100mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Death of the Virgin (Dormition).
Register 2: Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; God the Father.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with thieves; Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; onlookers.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Koechlin Number: 0273

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding (in 1924).

Object Condition
Chipped along the edges.

Provenance
Certainly from the collection of Armand Le Véel (b. 1821, d. 1905), as it is said to be in the 'Musée Le Véel' by Koechlin in 1924, it thus must have been part of the Le Véel bequest to the city of Cherbourg in 1905.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 166; II, no. 273.

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