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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

BK-NM-5404

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 60mm
Width: 80mm (open)

Wing, left
Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Pointed trefoils in the gables and spandrels. Crosshatched background.


Koechlin Number: 0882

Pit: Germany.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, late 18th century or early 19th century (in a mid 15th century style).


Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague; transferred to Amsterdam in 1883.

Bibliography
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), no. 22.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), no. 23.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 330, II, no. 882.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 130-131, 133, fig. 34).
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), p. 510, no. 916.


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