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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 5 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 5 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Passion. Life of Christ. Infancy of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 159mm
Width: 97mm

Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation. Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; sheep.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings. Flagellation; whips.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels; pointed trefoils in the gables and left and right spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.90, p. 28.


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