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

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

BK-NM-82

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 98mm
Depth: 6mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; rugged cross.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0538

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century
Museum's opinion 2011: France or Flanders (Meuse valley?), 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two (?) missing hinges.

Object Condition
Hole in the outer edge of each panel (lower part).

Provenance
Collection of D. van der Kellen Jr: sold, Drouot, Paris, 1873; Nederlands Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1875; transferred to Amsterdam in 1883.

Bibliography
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris: Pays-Bas (Haarlem, 1867), no. 293.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), p. 7, no. 19.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), p. 7, no. 16.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 538.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), p. 444, no. 774.
Een hogere werkelijkheid, Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, ed. by F. Scholten and G. de Werd, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Museum Kurhaus Kleef, 2004, pp. 142-3, no. 51.


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