Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.73

Ivory

Height: 116mm
Width: 107mm

Register 1: saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Saint Paul holding a sword; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a wheel and martyr's palm; saint Peter holding a key.
Register 2: saint Barbara (?) holding a martyr's palm and a tower (?); saint Mary Magdalene or saint Clare holding an ointment pot; saint James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff and hat. Saint Bartholomew holding a flaying knife; saint Agnes with a lamb, book and martyr's palm; saint Stephen (?) holding a book and martyr's palm.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2010: France?, 14th century or 19th century (?)

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Collection of Marc-Antoine Rougier (d. 1873), Lyon: sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 3-4 May 1904, lot 65 (with ill.). Bought from Jacques Seligmann in 1912 by Henry Walters; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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