Gothic Ivories Project | Double-sided panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side 2)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side 2)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Side 2)

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Side 1

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 92mm
Width: 60mm

Side 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Side 2: saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide; standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria with sword and martyr's palm; saint Catherine of Alexandria trampling Maxentius.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0528

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel.

Comments
This double sided panel seems to form a pair with another double-sided panel, also in an unknown location (Koechlin 516; see related object).
Koechlin mistakenly located these two pieces in the Abbeville Museum.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 195, 210; II, no. 528 (mistakenly said to be in the Musée Boucher-de-Perthes in Abbeville).

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