Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 127mm
Width: 109mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon. Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene).
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Entry into Jerusalem.
Incised trefoils and pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Breakage down the Crucifixion and Adoration of the Magi scenes.

Provenance
Collection of Hermann Sax, Vienna: Sax sale, Vienna, Miethke, 4 December 1893, lot 122. Manzi collection, Paris: sold, at the Manzi-Joyant sale, Paris, 15-16 December 1919, lot 41. Sotheby's, London, 13 December 2000, lot 10.

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