Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front)

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

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

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Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 70mm
Width: 121mm (open)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; Adam collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross. Pinnacles.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two metal hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy in the spandrels.

Provenance
Property of Mrs E. Joseph: Sotheby's, London, 20 December 1973, lot 5.

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