Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

43.462

Ivory

Height: 68mm
Width: 46mm
Depth: 6mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: French (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges. Old hole drilled in the upper left corner.

Provenance
Collection of Robert H. Tannahill (by 1928): given by him to the Institute in 1943.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 139.

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