Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 70mm
Width: 100mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vas of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation. Nativity; curtain.
Register 2: Flight into Egypt; Virgin holding the swaddled child. Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Wing, right
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi. Massacre of the Innocents with Herod. Register 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon. Coronation of the Virgin.
Border of dentils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Object Condition
Vertical crack down the centre of the right wing. Upper border of the left wing is chipped. Upper left corner of the left wing missing.
Discoloured ivory.

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne: Kofler-Truniger sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1979, lot 27. Christie's, London, 13 December 1985, lot 47. Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1987, lot 20.

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