Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front (open))

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front (open))

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front (open))

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Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 100mm (open)

Wing, left
Virgin of Mercy (Schutzmantelmadonna); Virgin sheltering men and women under her cloak; tonsured nuns and monks; brooch; crown.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Sun and Moon; rugged cross.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Maurice Kann: his sale, Paris, 5 December 1910, lot 218.

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