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

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

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S'-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh Castle

Inv. 403

Ivory

Height: 73mm
Width: 56mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); two angels crowning the Virgin; kneeling angel holding a navette and swinging a censer; bench decorated with a border of dentils.

Van Luttervelt 1948: Westphalia, 15th century.
Utrecht 1987: France, last quarter of the 14th century.
's-Heerenberg, 2008: Rhineland, late 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Purchased for the museum by Jan Herman van Heek from Dr. Heinrich Koch, Münster, before 1948.

Bibliography
R. van Luttervelt, Inventarislijst van de varzameling schilderijen, beeldouwwerken, handschriften en andere kunstvoorwerpen, op Huis Bergh, s'-Herenberg, opgemaakt door Dr. R. van Luttevelt, October - November 1948, (typescript, copy held in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum library), p. 120.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, Catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 37.
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. pp. 45-47), pl. 22.


Image

© Collection Dr. J.H. van Heek, Huis Bergh Castle, s'-Heerenberg.

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