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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Wing, right)

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

Wing, left

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 85mm
Width: 95mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin wringing her hands.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0391

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Comments
The figure of the God the Father, a later addition, has been removed before 1994 (see the old and the more recent photos)

Provenance
Collection of Dekan Kaiser, Löffingen. Collection of Charles Mège collection (in 1924). Drouot, Paris, 9-10 March 1959, lot 271. Collection of Jack and Belle Linsky. Private collection, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1994, lot 105.

Bibliography
G. Kachel and M. Rosenberg, Katalog der Badischen Kunst- und Kunstgewerbe-Ausstellung zur Feier der silbernen Hochzeit Ihrer königlichen Hoheiten des Grossherzogs und der Grossherzogin, part 2 (Karlsruhe, 1881).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 194, 203; II, no. 391.


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