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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory;metal (remains of upper hinge)

Height: 100mm
Width: 71mm
Depth: 11mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin with hands clasped; angels crying.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

Williamson 2005: French or German (Lower Rhine), c. 1340-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Provenance
Collection of Joseph Brummer: sold, Parke Bernet, New York, pt I (p. 161, fig. 644). Private collection, London: bought from the Blumka Gallery, New York. Blumka Gallery-Julius Böhler-Brimo de Laroussilhe, Collecting Treasures of the Past, New York, Blumka Gallery, January-February 2002, no. 44.

Bibliography
Collecting Treasures of the Past, Blumka Gallery, New York, 2002, no. 44.
P. Williamson, Medieval and Later Treasures from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005, no. 34.


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