Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette) (Front)

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Périgueux, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie du Périgord

Inv. A.7628

Ivory;wood (later chestnut frame)

Height: 80 mm (ivory only)
Width: 74 mm (ivory only)
Depth: 5 mm (ivory only)

Adoration of the Magi.
Twisted columns; crosshatched background; foliated decoration in the spandrels.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the frame.

Object Condition
The panel broke into two pieces which are kept together by the frame. Plugged holes on either side of the break, evidence of an earlier repair.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Alexis Lapeyre (d. 1877): given by him to the museum before 1865.

Bibliography
J.-B. E. Galy, Catalogue des tableaux, statues et objets d’art du Musée de la ville de Périgueux (Périgueux, 1865), no. 86.

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