Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon; rugged cross.
Border of dentils. Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Three holes in the upper part of each panel for later suspension (only visible on the back).

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
La Mère et l'enfant dans l'art religieux, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1960, no. 111.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 271, pl. CXXV, fig. 264.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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