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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Private collection, UK (in the 1980s or 1990s?).


Image

© Neil Stratford British Museum Archive.

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