Inv. 93 C
Annunciation; standing Virgin holding a book; sceptre; scroll.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century or 1st half of the 19th century.
Chiesi 2011: France, c. 1400.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (pattern along the hem of the Virgin's cloak).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
The hands of the angel, the sceptre and the scroll are the result of a later restoration.
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), no. 93, p. 224.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 49-62 (p. 60).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 61, 320; II, no. 851.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 131-134, fig. 36).
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), no. 45.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 484-496.
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