Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 full and 2 half arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Religious.

Repository Institution
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Utrecht, Catharijneconvent

Inv. ABM bi788

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 48.5mm
Depth: 3mm
Weight: 24g

Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Pointed trefoils.

Catalogus 1962: France, c. 1400.
Koekkoek 1987: France, early 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Reverse
Flat with scoring.

Object Condition
Hole in the upper border.

Provenance
Given in 1955 to the convent by M. and Mrs W. Arntz-Klep from Wassenaar.

Bibliography
Catalogus Beeldhouwkunst in het Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Utrecht (Utrecht, 1962), no. 40.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), no. 15.

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