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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Wing, right)
Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Wing, right)
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Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

Front

Wing, left

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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 120mm
Width: 132 mm (open)
Depth: 29 mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0389

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Provenance
Dmitri Schevitch (or Schewitch) collection, Madrid, until 1906: sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4-7 April 1906, lot 147. William Waldorf collection. Major Astor collection, at Hever Castle (Kent): sold, Sotheby's, London, Hever Castle sale, 6 May 1983, lot 241. Gallery Bernard Blondeel, Antwerp (1983-c. 1990). Private collection, France (c. 1990-2006). Bernard Descheemaeker Works of Art, Antwerp (in February 2010).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203, n. 1; II, no. 389.


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