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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Front (open)

Front

Front

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 125mm
Width: 86mm (each)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Sun and Moon.

Randall 1993: German (Cologne), 1340-1370.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges and a clasp.

Object Condition
Break in the right-hand leaf beside the lower hinge.

Provenance
Lowenqard sale, Paris, 3 March 1911, lot 37. Collection of J. J. Klejman, New York: sold, Sotheby's, New York, 1 November 1974, lot 19. Collection of Neil F. Phillips, New York (in 1993).

Bibliography
Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, ed. by D. Gillerman, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1977, no. 17.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 96.


Image

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