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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 434

Ivory

Height: 75mm
Width: 38mm
Depth: 7mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Two angels with hands in prayer in the spandrels.
Pointed trefoil in the gable.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Chamfered inner edge; rounded outer edge.
Label with inscriptions: '434', '1017', '27'.

Object Condition
Missing: candlesticks (angels), head of Christ, left hand of one of the angels, face of the Virgin.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 434.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1017.


Image

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