Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 52mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; two angels crowning the Virgin; two angels standing on the sides of the bench (or clouds?).

Koechlin Number: 0395

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

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of Emile Lévy, Paris (at least from 1924): his sale, Paris, Drouot, 14 December 1928, lot 7.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 202; II, no. 395 (in Lévy collection).

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