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Ivory Panels with Liturgical Scenes

Court of Charles the Bald, c.870-75? Each panel c.16 x 10.5 cm.
Possibly from a sacramentary cover. Front surfaces probably ground or planed down.
Louvre Museum MR 368 and MR 369, formerly treasure of Saint-Denis


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both panels
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MR 368, full front
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MR 369, full front
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MR 368, back
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MR 369, back
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MR 368, top and center registers
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MR 368, center and bottom registers
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MR 368, top left: angle view from left
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MR 368, top: left baldachin and architectonic detail, showing coating on background plane
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MR 368, top left, angle view from right
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MR 368, top: attendants, one with book
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MR 368, top: bishop officiating at altar
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MR 368, top: objects on altar, angle view from above
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MR 368, top: attendants, angle view from left
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MR 368, center: figures on left, some with surviving facial features
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MR 368, center: figures on left, angle view from left
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MR 368, center: angle view from right
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MR 368, bottom: figures on left, some with surviving facial features
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MR 369, top and center registers
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MR 369, center and bottom registers
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MR 369, top: figures on left with crown(?), lit from below
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MR 369, top: figures on left with crown(?), lit from lower right
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MR 369, top: figures on right with book
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MR 369, top: right baldachin and foliage
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MR 369, center left: baptism, lit from below
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MR 369, center left: baptism, lit from right
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MR 369, center left: baptism with tonsured figure looking over from right
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MR 369, center right: laying on of hands, lit from front
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MR 369, center right: laying on of hands, lit from below
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MR 369, center right: laying on of hands, with figures on right with censer
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MR 369, bottom left: secular figures, lit from right
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MR 369, bottom left: secular figures, lit from front
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MR 369, bottom right: secular figures with swords