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

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

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 70mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; cruciform halo.
Pinnacles.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Adams collection: sold, Bonhams, London, 22 May 1996 (vol. III, n. 93) to Jan Dirven, art dealer, Eindhoven; sold (with silver 14th-century Christ) to Carlo de Carlo in Basel, October 1998. Private collection, London (no. 260) (bought from Bernard Descheemaeker, Antwerp, 26 March 2003); Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2008, lot 15. Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2010, lot 18.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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