Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

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Ivory

Height: 140mm
Width: 200 mm (open)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Sun and Moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0402

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

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Object Condition
One central hole at the top of each panel.

Provenance
Collection of Lucien and Helene Mellerio. Collection of Gaston Le Breton, Rouen: sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6 December 1921, lot 197, plate 19. Drouot, Paris, 30 May 2001.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, 200, 203; II, no. 402.

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