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

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

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

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

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Ivory;metal (hinges)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest (broken); swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women and saint John the Evangelist; onlookers holding scrolls; two angels holding the sun and the moon; cruciform halo.
Two medallions enclosing quatrefoils with male faces. Arch resting on capitals in the shape of crouching men.

Paris 1900: 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Paris (at least 1900-c. 1924).

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, no. 120.

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